On a new and gigantic Fossil Species of Echidna. 113 
: XIX.—On the Discovery of a new and gigantic Fossil Spe- 
_etes of Echidna in Australia. By GERARD KRerrt, Cu- 
rator and Secretary of the Australian Museum, Sydney. 
To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 
GENTLEMEN, ) 
_ Incataloguing the rich collection of Australian fossil remains 
in the Museum at Sydney, I observed, among other novelties, 
a fragment of the humerus of a gigantic Echidna (much larger 
Fig. 2. 
Fragment of humerus of a fossil Echidna, view from above. 
Ditto, front view. . Fig. 3. Ditto, back view. 
Part of humerus of Echidna hystrix, corresponding to fig. 1. 
Ditto, back view, corresponding to fig. 3. 
Humerus of Echidna hystrix. 
