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p. 267 (1841); Gray, Grey's Austr., App. ii., p. 401 (1841); 

 Less., N. Tabl., ll.A., Mamm., p. 188 (1842); Gray. List 

 Mamm. B.M., p. 85 (1843); Wagn., Schr. Siiiig. Supp., iii., p. 

 77 (1843) ; Schinz. Syn. Mamm., i., p. 527 (1844) ; Gould, 

 Mamm. Austr., i., pi. xv. (animal) (1849); Gunn, P. Roy. 

 Soc. Tasm., ii., p. 83 (1852) ; Gerrard. Cat. Bones Mamm, B.M., 

 p. 121 (1862) ; Krefft, Cat. Mamm. Austr. Mus., p. 38 (1864) ; 

 id., Notes Fauu. Tasm., p. 4 (1868); id., Mamm. Austr. pi. 

 ix (arimal) (1871). Plialangista fuliginosa, var. grisea. 

 Gray, Grey's Aust., App. ii., p. 401 (1841). Plialangista felina, 

 Wagn., Schr. Saug. Supp., iii., p. 76 (1843), v., p. 270 (1865); 

 Scliinz, Syn. Mamm., i., p. -527 (18M). 



Typo in British Museuin. 



T'hei Phalangers are usually referxed to as Opossums, 

 but the designation is not strictly ecrrect. 



This species has been greatly reduced in numbers 

 owing to the value placed on its fur. General colour 

 rufous-grey or deep umbber-brcwn. Head and- body ab'O'ut 

 twenty-four inches, the tail, which is very bushy, is about 

 fifteein inches long. It is siometimes questioned if we have 

 not two species, but I prefer to treat them as one. In this 

 connection saa notes by Ronald Gunn, p. 84, P. & P. Roy. 

 Soc. Tas., 1852. 



Phascolomys ursinus, var. tasmaniensis. 

 Tasmanian Wombat. 



Phascolomys ursiniis, Lucas and Le Souef, An. Aust., p. 



Ill (1909); 

 Camb. Nat. Hist. Mamxn., p. 145 



(1902); 

 Ogilby, Cat. Aust. Mamm., p. 25 

 (i892). 

 Fliascolomys womhaf, Pict. Mus. An. Nat., Vol. I., p. 22 



and pis. 90-91 ; 

 West, Hist. Tas., Vol. I., p. 324 

 (1852). 

 Fliascolomys tasmaniensis, Spencer and Kershav/, Mem. 3. 



Nat. Mus. Melb. (1907). 

 Fliascolomys urdnus, Thomas, Cat. M. & M. Brit. Mus., p. 

 215 (1888), who gives the following synonymy: — 

 Wombat, Collins, New South Wales, ii., p. 153 plate 

 (animal) (1802); Home, Phil. Trans. 1808, p. 304, pi. ix. (anat). 

 Didelphis ursina, Shaw. Gen.- ZooL, i., pt. 2, p. 504 (1800). 

 Wombatus foGsor, Desm., N. Diet. d'H.N. (1) xxiv., p. 20 

 (1803) ; Sevast. Mem. Ac. Petersb., i., p. 445 (1807) ; Tiedem. 

 ZooL, p. 433 (1808); G. Fisch, Zoogn., iii., p. 15 (1814). 

 Pbascoiomys fusca (Geoff.), 111., Prodr. Syst. Mamm., p. 78 

 (J811); Desm., N. Diet. d'H.N. (2), xxv., p. 500 (1817); 

 Owen, Cyclop. Anat. Phys., iii., p. 267, figs. 93. 94, & 105 

 (skull & skeleton) (1840). Amblotis fossor, 111. Prodr. Syst. 



