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All the above relate to the right femur, the left being 

 reduced to a diaphysis of 145 mm. in length. This latter 

 enables us to note that the bony substance of the shaft varies 

 from 4 to 7 mm. according to the presence or absence of 

 external muscular attachment scars. 



Some twenty vertebras, a calcaneum, and part of the 

 sternum are among the available items, also parts of both 

 ulnse, the head of a radius, and the glenoid end of a scapula. 

 The calcaneum is much stouter than that of the modern 

 Forester Kangaroo, although similar as to length, the facets 

 it presents suggest interesting points of comparison with 

 that of the modern wallaby, with which it of course more 

 closely agrees (upon the whole) than with the same bone from 

 the foot of the kangai'oo. 



As a recent note from the pen of L. Glauert, F.G.S., of 

 the Perth Museum {vide Pleistocene Fossils from the Fitzroy 

 River, Kimberley. Western Australia, in Royal Society's 

 Journal, Vol. 7). records a similar find, we have detailed our 

 specimens for comparison. 



CONCLUSION. 



In reviewing Mr. K. M. Harrisson's King Island find, we 

 see that the material has yielded specimens of the following 

 animals: — 



1. ZuglossHs harrissoni, 



2. Nototherium mitchelli, 



3. Nototherium victorix, 



4. Macropus anak (Owen's "Protemnodon anak"), 

 5 Bones of modern wombats, wallabies, and 



kangaroos, 

 the whole being associated in a common matrix. 



The matrix in question is very like that of Smithton, 

 being in point of fact exactly similar drained bog land, and 

 the bones are in need of exactly the same form of treatment 

 for future preservation. We beg to record our thanks to 

 Mr. Harrisson for his kindness in presenting these very 

 interesting remains to our Tasmanian Museums, thus 

 enabling us to slowly build up valuable comparative collec- 

 tions of the extinct Pleistocene Marsupials. 



