1909.] OF MARSUPIALS AXD MOXOTREMES IN S.W. AUSTRALIA. 829 



Ring-tail or Rat-tail Opossum of Colonists. 

 ' Wormp ' (Beverley), ' Moilyer,' or ' Ngnuara ' (Margaret 

 River), of natives. 



Text-fiff. 263. 



WESTERN 

 AUSTRALIA 



Scale of EnriHsli Miles 



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Map showing' distribution oi Pseudocliirus occidentaHs. 



Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr. (Text-fig. 264, p. 830.) 



Plentiful and occurring generally throughout the South-West, 

 except in the neighbourhood of towns, although far less abundant 

 and widely distributed than formerly, getting veiy much thinned 



