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inhabited districts, seems also to have adapted itself to an 

 entirely out-door life here. I have come across it in every place 

 that I have visited in the South-west, in some places at least 

 twenty miles frorb. any house." — G. C. S. 



18. XOTOMYS GOULDI Gould. 



20 from Stockpool, Dwaladiue. and Woyaline. 



This fine series is of particular value, as these peculiar native 

 !Muidda? seem to be dying out everywhere in competition with 

 the introduced forms, and the preservation of proj>ei- specimens 

 is therefore of much importance. 



This is the Rapcdotis mitchelli of Gould's • Mammals of Australia.' 

 but not the original iJipus mitchelli of Ogilby. Finding out the 

 mistake when writing the Introduction, Gould said : " H. gouldii 

 of Gray will be the coi-rect designation of the animal I have 

 called H. mitchelli." But unfortunately H. gouldii was never 

 described by Gray, its description having been accidentally 

 omitted from the Appendix to Grey's 'Austi-alia,' where the name 

 merely occiu's as a nomen riudiun. Consequently, on the above 

 sentence, the species seems to stand as goiddii of Gould himself, 

 and the specimen figured by him as H. mitchelli. recently received 

 Avith the Tomes Collection (B.M. Xo. 7.1.1.135). would be the 

 type. 



I may here draw the attention of Australian zoologists to the 

 fact that the genus I recently called Ammomys has been renamed 

 Mesemhriomys by Mr. T. tS. Palmer, the former name having been 

 preoccupied. 



'• The bmTOWs of this species ai-e very difficult to find, the 

 entiances being very small and often hidden by tufts of gra.ss. 

 Each burrow has two or more outlets which descend perpen- 

 dicidarly for some distance and then \\-ind about in all dii-ections, 

 sometimes nearly three feet below the surface. Each burrow 

 contains one pair or family, the usual number of young being 

 foru-, but occasionally as many as .sis. Frequenting heavily 

 timbered country and seeming to prefer the neighboiu-hood of 

 water. This species is said to be migratory, theii- movements 

 probably being affected by dry seasons. 



'• Xative name. " Gunding.' '' — G. C. S. 



[Oeyctolagus cuxiculcs Liun. 



" The Rabbit has so far been kept out of the agricultural districts 

 of the South-west by a rabbit-proof fence that passes through 

 Burracoppiu on the Ea.stern railway, extending to Lsraelite Bav 

 on the south. It seems to have spread eveiwivhere east of the 

 fence."— &'.(?. >S'.] 



19. Macropus GiGAXTEUS Zimm. 



13 specimens from Stockpool. Dwaladine, and Wovaline. 

 "The common or grev Kangaroo of the south-west, not 



