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the particulars. I was the first to call the late Professor M 'Coy's 

 attention to them. When I found the burrows (large camps half 

 a mile long and about three or four chains wide) in a very 

 secluded part of the country, I at once set about securing 

 specimens. Upon examination I found they differed from the 

 South Australian specimens in several little points. The nose 

 was not quite the same, and the skull appeared to me to be 

 shorter and the head rounder. The hair was of the same fine 

 texture, but varied very much in colour. There were also a fair 

 number of black ones among them. When I obtained the 

 specimens you have, the late Mr. A. Morton, of the Hobart 

 Museum, went with me to secure skulls with the brain preserved 

 for examination by the late Professor Owen. I left New South 

 Wales soon after 1884, and so lost the run of things, and never 

 heard what decision was arrived at. . . . Where those 

 wombats were found was, at that time, a very out-of-the-way place 

 and the area was comparative small. I knew all the country 

 round in every direction, and never found any traces of them 

 outside this area. . . . To give you an idea of the area 

 in question, refer to a map of New South Wales for the western 

 boundary of the county of Denison, and carry that north to Billa- 

 bong Creek, then east to the 146th meridian, then south to the 

 latitude of Deniliquin, making that the southern boundary ; the 

 enclosed area is (or was) the habitat of these wombats. I am 

 satisfied there were none to be found anywhere else in that or 

 any other part of New South Wales. . . ." 



The above particulars, so kindly furnished by Mr. Peers, and 

 agreeing in every respect with those in the Museum records, 

 establish without any doubt the occurrence of this species in this 

 district. Its distribution must therefore be extended to southern 

 New South Wales. 



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