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is au animal living in rather high altitude and it there- 

 fore is no wonder that this organ is so very hairy. 



MONOTREMATA. 



123. Tachyglossus Lawesii Ramsay. 



The generic title Echidna for this group of Mammals 

 being preoccupied for a Fish-genus, we have to accept 

 the next name and this is Tachyglossus, given by Illiger 

 in 1811. 



The first known specimen of Lawesii is from S. E. New- 

 Guinea, Port-Moresby; in the British-Museum is an adult 

 female from the very locality, presented by Prof. Mosely. 

 Head and body 350 mm.; skull: basal length LOO mm., 

 greatest breadth 39.7 mm. It differs much less from the 

 Australian form than the Tasmanian one does, agreeing 

 with it in the relative lengths of the hind claws and in the 

 absence of condyloid vacuities in the skull; its small size, 

 bristle-covered head and belly and narrow skull, however, 

 combined with its different locality, seems so justify its 

 provisional retention as a distinct geographical race (Tho- 

 mas, Catalogue, 1888, p. 378). Loria collected a specimen 

 at Gerekanumu, on the southern slope of the Astrolabe 

 Range, S. N. G., for the Genoa-Museum; in that Museum 

 is another specimen without exact locality. 



124. Proechidna Bruynii Peters et Doria. 



Under this head have been brought together all spe- 

 cimens with the well known elongated beak, from the North 

 Western part of New-Guinea. The spines are of a white 

 colour in contrast with the black-tipped spines of the fore- 

 going species. In the Leyden-Museum is an adult male of 

 a splendid black, having the whole head, upper-arms, three 

 large patches between the shoulders and along the lower 

 part of the sides of the body of a white colour, hands 

 and feet brown ; the spines are numerous and everywhere 



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