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broad bands on each side of the rump white (J. E. Gray, in Gunn, 

 1838, pp. 107-108). General color grizzled yellowish brown; outer 

 surface of ears yellowish brown, with a darker terminal blotch; 

 sides of rump with four more or less distinct pale vertical bands 

 running downward from near the middle line, the spaces between 

 them brown or black. Head and body, 380-400 mm. ; tail, 80-90 mm. 

 (Thomas, 1888, pp. 245-246.) 



Its known range includes Tasmania and Victoria. In the former 

 state "the bandicoots are very numerous everywhere; they . . . 

 live principally on roots. I knew one gentleman's entire collection 

 of Cape bulbs, principally Babianae, eaten by them, and I suffered 

 considerably myself, having lost some entire species of bulbs 

 through these animals." (Gunn, 1838, pp. 102-103.) Gray (in Gunn, 

 1838, p. 108) records insect remains found in the stomach of one 

 specimen. 



This species is to be met with throughout Tasmania, but it ap- 

 pears to be less commonly and evenly distributed than the Short- 

 nosed Bandicoot (Lord, 1928, p. 20) . 



"At one time distributed through western and central Victoria, 

 this species is now restricted to a single locality near Hamilton and 

 its numbers are few" (C. W. Brazenor, in litt., March 3, 1937). 



Western Barred Bandicoot; Marl 



PERAMELES MYOSURA MYOSURA Wagner 



Perameles myoswos Wagner, Archiv fur Naturg. (Wiegmann), 7th yr., vol. 1, 

 p. 293, 1841. (The type locality, not stated in the original description, is 

 Swan River, according to Glauert (1933, p. 23), or King George's Sound, 

 West Australia, according to Iredale and Troughton (1934, p. 19).) 



FIGS.: Schreber, Saugthiere, suppl. 3, pi. 155 Ad, 1842; Gould, 1845, vol. 1, 

 pi. 10. 



"No specimens have reached the [Perth] Museum since 1900. It 

 is therefore assumed that the animal is extinct." (Glauert, 1933, 

 p. 23.) 



Above mixed with blackish and yellowish brown; below dirty 

 yellowish white; ears pale dusky, with a rusty-red spot at external 

 base; a dark band extending across sides in front of thighs; feet 

 whitish; tail scaly, short-haired, dusky above, dirty white below. 

 Head and body, 11 inches; tail, 3 inches. (Wagner, 1841, pp. 293- 

 295.) 



The former range was the southwestern portion of Western 

 Australia. According to Gould (1863, vol. 1, p. 14), it "inhabits 

 the whole line of coast of the Swan River colony, but, so far as I 

 can learn, is not found to the westward of the Darling range of 

 hills." He adds that "its food consists of insects, seeds, and grain." 

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