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EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



very rare, and apparently doomed to extinction in New South 

 Wales owing to denudation in over-stocked country, also populated 

 by rabbits, and the fox." In 1938 (p. 407) he refers to it as "either 

 extinct or nearly so." 



In Victoria, according to C. W. Brazenor (in Hit., March 3, 1937) , 

 there were two records, the last in 1869. He considers the species 

 extinct in that state. 



"It is tolerably abundant in all the plains of South Australia, 

 particularly those situated between the Belts of the Murray and the 

 mountain ranges" (Gould, 1841J, text to pi. 12). 



FIG. 13. Brown Hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes leporides). After Gould. 



Jones writes (1924, pp. 222-223) of its status in South Australia: 

 "I know of no preserved specimens of this formerly common 

 animal from which a description may be written of the actual form 

 which inhabited this State. . . . 



"In the British Museum catalogue of 1888 five specimens in the 

 collection are recorded as being from South Australia .... I have 

 been unable to obtain any evidence of its present existence in the 

 State, and in all probability it is completely exterminated." 



Rufous Hare-wallaby; Western Hare-wallaby; "Whistler"; 

 "Spinifex Rat" 



LAGORCHESTES HIRSUTUS HIRSUTUS Gould 



Lagorchestes hirsutus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1844, p. 32, 1844. 



("York District of Western Australia.") 

 FIG.: Gould, 1849, vol. 2, pi. 58. 



This animal has long since disappeared from a large part of its 

 former range in the west of Western Australia but survives in 



