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Albany and Cape Leeuwin, although extending to the coast at the 

 Margaret River and Cape Naturaliste. Said still to exist in isolated 

 patches in the North between the Swan River and Gin-Gin. Also 

 occurring on the Abrolhos (Wallabi Group), Garden, and some 

 of the islands off Esperance. . . . Not extending on the South Coast 

 much beyond Phillips River . . . . " 



Shortridge records specimens from Arthur River, Boyadine-Dale 

 River, Stockpool, Dwaladine, Woyaline Wells, Ellensbrook, and 

 Twin Peak and Middle Islands, off Esperance. The accompanying 

 map (p. 812) shows the former range extending in a broad coastwise 

 strip from Northampton to South Australia; but the current (1910) 

 range restricted to the southwestern corner of the state. 



Under the name of Macropus (Thylogale) dama, Glauert (1933, 

 p. 32) gives the range of the mainland form as "South -Western 

 Australia, from the Moore River in the north to the south coast 

 (Cape Leeuwin and Cape Arid), inland to the Great Southern 

 Railway." 



Troughton (1932a, p. 175) reports the species as "plentiful on the 

 two largest islands" of Houtman's Abrolhos. 



Le Souef states (1930, p. Ill) that it was introduced about 1870 

 on Kawau Island, New Zealand, and is still present there. 



Rufous-bellied Wallaby or Pademelon; Tasmanian Wallaby or 



Pademelon 



THYLOGALE BILLARDIERII (Desmarest) 



Kangurus Billardierii Desmarest, Mammalogie, pt. 2, suppl., p. 512, 1822. ("La 



terre de Van-Diemen" [Tasmania].) 

 FIGS.: Gould, 1841, pi. 10; Gould, I860, vol. 2, pis. 35, 36; Le Souef and Burrell, 



1926, fig. 44. 



Although this wallaby remains numerous in Tasmania and is still 

 found on some of the islands of Bass Strait, it seems desirable to 

 place it on record here as a vanished species of the Australian 

 mainland. 



It is distinguished by its short ears, stout form, and long fur; 

 upper parts grayish brown, tinged with olive on head and rump; 

 under parts yellowish or rufous; tail short, grayish brown, the basal 

 part orange above, the terminal part grayish white below (Thomas, 

 1888, p. 59). Head and body, 640-765 mm.; tail, 315-320 mm. (Lord 

 and Scott, 1924, p. 247). Weight, 15-20 Ib. (Gould, 1863, vol. 2, 

 p. 42). 



Gould gives the following account (1863, vol. 2, p. 42) : 



I have but little doubt that the habitat of this Wallaby is limited to Van 

 Diemen's Land and the larger islands in Bass's Straits, in all which localities 

 it is so numerous that the thousands annually destroyed make no apparent 



