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that these had been exterminated. I have ascertained, however, 

 that there are still some of them in this district." 



In discussing the status of this and two other species in Victoria, 

 Jones and Manson say (1935, p. 35) : "All the small Wallabies are 

 rare and very infrequently seen." 



More recently David H. Fleay (in Hit., June 1, 1937) reports 

 the species as extinct in Victoria but as still found in New South 

 Wales. 



Some of the older works (e, g., Thomas, 1888, p. 53; Ogilby, 1892, 

 p. 53) record it from southern Queensland, and more recently Long- 

 man (1930, p. 58) lists it from southeastern Queensland. However, 

 Iredale and Troughton (1934, p. 46) give its current range as merely 

 "New South Wales." 



Parma Wallaby or Pademelon; White-throated Wallaby or 



Pademelon 



THYLOGALE PARMA (J. E. Gray) 



Hal [maturusl Parma "Gould" J. E. Gray, in Grey, Two Expeditions Discovery 

 Australia, vol. 2, appendix, p. 403, 1841. ("Sidney, and its neighbourhood, 

 New South Wales.") 



Fia: Gould, 1856, vol. 2, pi. 28. 



This species of New South Wales is evidently extinct. 



The general color is deep reddish brown, penciled with white and 

 black; paler on sides; nape, shoulders, and forelegs brownish rust 

 color; a narrow black stripe along back of neck; throat and chest 

 white, rest of under parts dirty rusty white; tail scantily haired, 

 black above, dirty white below (Waterhouse, 1846, vol. 1, pp. 150- 

 151). Head and body, 590 (female) to 640 mm. (male) ; tail, 410 

 (female) to 430 mm. (male) (Thomas, 1888, p. 58). 



Gould states (1863, vol. 2, p. 34) that in the Illawarra district 

 of New South Wales "I myself saw it in a state of nature. In these 

 extensive brushes it doubtless still exists, as since my return other 

 specimens have been sent to me from thence by the late Mr. Strange. 

 How far its range may extend westwardly towards Port Philip, or 

 eastwardly in the direction of Moreton Bay, I am unable to state." 

 Gould also speaks of its being hunted by the aborigines. 



"This species seems to be very rare and locally distributed" in 

 New South Wales (Lydekker, 1894, p. 40). 



"The White-throated Wallaby . . . once plentiful in the Illa- 

 warra district south of Sydney is apparently quite extinct, and rep- 

 resented by only five specimens of which three are in England and 

 two are in the Australian Museum." The uncertainty of range, as 

 expressed by Gould, "will never be cleared up now, as the last of the 

 two Australian Museum specimens was collected in 1889, and there 



