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EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



white (Gould, 1863, vol. 1, p. 12). Outer surface of ears flesh color 

 basally, darker terminally; sides of rump with four pale vertical 

 bands running downward from near the middle line, the spaces 

 between them brown or black (Thomas, 1888, p. 248) . 



"This elegant species . . . enjoys a wide range over the eastern 

 . . . portions of Australia, but is more frequently met with in the 

 country within the ranges . . . than in the districts lying between 

 the mountains and the sea. In New South Wales, the stony ridges 

 which branch off from the ranges towards the rivers Darling and 

 Namoi, are localities in which it may always be found." (Gould, 

 1863, vol. 1, p. 12.) 



IE. . 



FIG. 5. Eastern Barred Bandicoot (Perameles jasciata). After Gould, 1849. 



The animal is "now believed extinct though once well distributed 

 over western Victoria and N. S. Wales. The ultimate fate of these 

 small non-burrowing forms is most uncertain." (E. Le G. Trough- 

 ton, in litt., April 16, 1937.) 



Tasmania ii Barred Bandicoot; Gunn's Striped Bandicoot 



PERAMELES GUNNII J. E. Gray 



Perameles Gunnii J. E. Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, vol. 1, p. 107, 1838. 



("Van Diemen's Land" [= Tasmania].) 

 FIGS.: Waterhouse, 1841, pi. 15; Gould, 1859, vol. 1, pi. 9; Lydekker, 1894, 



pi. 21. 



While this species still occurs in numbers in Tasmania, it is 

 "bordering on extinction in Victoria" (David H. Fleay, in litt., 

 June 1,1937). 



Muzzle tapering, gray-brown; under parts, feet, tail, and four 



