I!V r-KOKKSSOU SIR T. \V. K. DAVID. KIVK.. KTf, I37 



iv. Based on the age of the dingo on the assumption 

 that the dingo was introduced into Australia by the 

 early Australian aboriginal immigrants. (9). 



Remains of dingo (warrigal) have been recorded at the 

 following: — 



a. At a cave in basalt on Toolern-Toolern Creek, ."> iTiiles 

 S.E. of Gisborne, in Victoria, in 1857, C. D'Oyly, H. 

 Alpin, with Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn, found perfect 

 skulls of dingo, of the Devil of Tasmania (S^trco- 

 philns uysbnts), etc. <2). 



b. At Lake Colungulac, near Camperdown, cranial re- 

 mains of dingo, as well as remains of Thylacoleo 

 cannfex, were figured by McCoy from the lakt allu- 

 vial deposits. <■*>. 



c. From alluvial deposits at Lake Timboon, Co. Heytes- 



bury, Victoria, R. B. Smyth states that remains of 

 Canis dingo were found with those of Sarcophilus 

 vrsiyms, Harris, Macropus titan, Owen, and M. at- 

 las, Owen, and of Nototheriiim and Diprotodou. <•". 



d. Smyth also states (op. cit., p. 149) that in sinking a 

 well at Tower Hill volcano, near Warrnambool, after 

 penetrating 63 feet of basaltic tuff, dried grass of an 

 old land surface was struck, then blue and yellow 

 clay, and at further depth of 60 feet, that is, 123 feet 

 below the surface, the skull and bones of a dingo 

 were found. Much doubt, however, exists as to the 

 authenticity of this discovery, and the statement is 

 now discredited. 



e. The late Professor R. Tate states <5) that the Warri- 



gal and Diprotodon "whose remains are found be- 

 "neath the ashes of the Mt. Gambler volcano" were 

 contemporaneous. This statement is also now 

 seriously called in question. 



f. Krefft <•>) records the occurrence of the first two 



molars of the lower jaw of a dog in a cave breccia 

 from Wellington, New South Wales, associated with 

 remains of Thylacinus, Sarcophihis, and Diprotodon. 

 Mr. R. Etheridge, jun. ('>, verified the occurrence 

 of teeth of Ca)iis in the cave-breccia specimens from 

 Wellington, in the collections at the Australian 



(2) Selwyn. Q..J.G.S.. XVI.. 1860, p. M5. 



McCoy, Ecol. Sur. Vii!t. Nott>s attached to Quarter Sheet, vii., N.W. 



(.3) McCoy, F'rodromus Pal.. Vict., Dec. vii., 1S82, pp. S ami 0. 



(4) Smyth, Aborik'incs of Victoria, i., 1878, pp. 119-150. 



(5) Trana. Phil. Soc. Adelaitie. 1878-79 (1879), p. I.XX. 



(6) Gfol. M.1K. ii., 18fi5. p. 572. 



(7) Mem. dcol. Sur. N.S.W., KthnoloKical Scries. No. 2, p. 50. 



