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EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



"Apparently not plentiful in the South-west, although described 

 by natives as being fairly numerous in the Salt River district. A 

 species of Bandicoot, probably this species, is said to have formerly 

 extended as far north on the mainland as Sharks Bay." Specimens 

 are recorded from the vicinity of Pin jelly and Kojonup. (Short- 

 ridge, 1910, pp. 833-834; map, p. 835.) 



FIG. 6. Western Barred Bandicoot (Perameles myosura myosura}. 

 After Gould, 1845. 



South Australian Barred Bandicoot 



PERAMELES MYOSURA NOTINA Thomas 



Perameles myosura notina Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 10, 

 p. 144, 1922. ("Plains near the head of the St. Vincent Gulf," South 

 Australia.) 



FIGS.: Jones, 1924, p. 147, fig. 102; Le Souef and Burrell, 1926, fig. 83. 



This subspecies is apparently extinct in southeastern South 

 Australia but is "probably holding its own in the semi-arid Nullarbor 

 Plain" in the west (A. S. Le Souef, in Hit., February 15, 1937) . 



It closely resembles P. fasciata in coloration, with three distinct 

 black bands on the hind quarters; skull with more slender muzzle 

 and smaller teeth than in P. fasciata. Head and body, 280 mm.; 

 tail, 90 mm. (Thomas, 1922, p. 144.) 



Formerly it seems to have ranged across the entire east-west 

 extent of South Australia, in the more southern parts. According to 

 Jones (1924, pp. 149-150), "this beautiful little Bandicoot had at 

 one time a fairly wide distribution in this State. In addition to the 

 animals from the head of St. Vincent Gulf, are others from the 

 River Murray in South Australia, and from Adelaide itself. As 

 far as can be ascertained it has now disappeared from all these 

 localities, and remains only in the wastes of the western portion 

 of the Centre. . 



