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ADDENDA. 



WE are favoured, by the Literary and Philoso- 

 phical Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with the 

 figures and descriptions of two very rare animals, 

 sent to them from New South Wales, by James 

 Hunter, Esq., governor of that settlement, in a let- 

 ter dated " Sydney r , New Soiith Wales, August 5, 



The one, like most of the animals found in these 

 new settlements, has a false belly or pouch, for the 

 reception of its young after their protrusion from 

 the uterus ; common to every animal of the Opos- 

 sum kind. 



The other seems to be an animal sui generis ; it 

 appears to possess a three fold nature, that of a 

 fish, a bird, and a quadruped, and is related to 

 nothing that we have hitherto seen : we shall not 

 attempt to arrange it in any of the usual modes of 

 classification, but content'ourselves with giving the 

 description of both these curious animals as they 

 have been transmitted to us. 



THE WOMBACH. 



"THIS animal was found upon an island on the 

 coast of New South Wales, in latitude _jo' 36" S., 



