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South Wales mammalian fauna. The distribution given in the 

 B.M. Catalogue of Marsupialia and Monotremata (1888), is 

 " Central and Southern Queensland " and " Clarence River, 

 More ton Bay." 



Mr. Steel exhibited specimens of eight species of Land 

 Planarians in illustration of Dr. Dendy's paper. 



Messrs. Hardy and J. A. Despeissis exhibited a fur cloak, a 

 bone pin used for fastening the same, a broad flat form of womerah 

 made of jarrah wood, and a knife made from a piece of glass fixed 

 on a cylindrical wooden handle, all obtained from an aboriginal 

 tribe living in the neighbourhood of Lake Muir in the S. W. corner 

 of West Australia, about 100 miles inland from Cape Leeuwin. 

 Mr. Despeissis, who procured the specimens, also gave the follow- 

 ing particulars about the habits of the natives, and the native 

 names of the objects exhibited : — 



" The cloak they call Bwouckn; the spear-thrower, made from 

 jarrah wood, .]feerd; the spear, Kidyfe: the boomerang, Gdrlee; a 

 male aboriginal, Nimgar; a female aboriginal, Yoack. The tribe 

 consisted of about a dozen men, eight or nine females, one or two 

 children, and one halfcaste. The southern part of the colony is 

 in the winter very cold and wet; so some sort of clothing is a 

 necessity. Kangaroos, however, are plentiful. The hwoucka is 

 made from the skins of "joeys" or young kangaroos. The fur is 

 carried inside, and the hide is made soft and pliable by rubbing 

 with kangaroo fat and then hung up in the smoke of fire made 

 with the trunks of the Grass-tree ("Black-boys" or Xanthorrhcea). 

 In the evening the natives stand by the fire-side with their cloaks 

 on, a piece of stick about twelve inches long put in the hollow of 

 the sternum, the other end against the cloak, which is then 

 stretched out a little or some distance from the body; in the hands 

 they take a few chips of black-boy wood which burns like matches, 

 being very resinous; these they light and hold close up to their 

 naked body under the cloak, which they thus warm nicely." 



