PREFACE. 



MR. J. DOUGLAS OGILBY having been engaged by the Trustees 

 of the Australian Museum to prepare a Catalogue of the Aus- 

 tralian Mammals, the work now issued is the result. It contains 

 careful descriptions of all known Mammals indigenous to Australia, 

 with notes also on allied fossil forms, compiled from various sources 

 of which the author gives due acknowledgment in his Introduction. 

 Nearly all the species are represented by one or more specimens 

 in the Museum, and those which are not so are indicated by an 

 asterisk placed against their names in the Index. Mr. Ogilby has 

 found it necessary to alter many of the generally recognised names, 

 for reasons which he gives in each case, consequently some of 

 the specimens exhibited in the Museum may not bear the same 

 designation as in the Catalogue. These differences will, however, 

 be remedied on the labels as speedily as possible. 



E. P. RAMSAY. 



December, 1892. 



