46 NOTES ON THE MAMMALS OF TASMANIA, 



1835, p. 7 (Anat.); Less., H.N. Mamm. (Compl. Buff), v., p. 

 372, X., p. 366 (1836); Waterli., Cat. Mamm. Mus. Z.S., p. 65 

 (1838); Owen, P.Z.S., 1838, p. 121 et seqq. , id., Tr. Z.S., ii., 

 pp. 389, 408, pi. Ixx., fig. 4 (skull) (1841); Waterli., Jard. 

 iSat. Libr., Mamm. xi., p. 130^ pi. vi. (animal) (1841) ; Less., 

 N. Tabl. R.A., Mamm., p. 190 (1842); Wagn., Schr. Siiug. 

 Supp., iii., p. 23, pi. clii., B. a (animal) (1843), v., p. 196 

 (1855); Schinz., Syn. Mamm., i., p. 490 (1844); Gieb., 

 Odontogr., p. 39, pi. xvii., figs. 1 & 3 (teeth) (1855); Dobs., 

 J. Anat. Phys.. xvii., p. 153 (1882) (Anat. feet). Dasyurus 

 maculatus, G. Fiscli., Zoogn., ii., p. 584 (1813); Giray, Grey's 

 Austr., Apr,, ii., p. 400 (1841); id., List Mamm. B.M., p. 98 

 (1843) ; Waterh., N.H. Mamm., i., p. 439, pi. xxi., fig. 2, 

 skull (1846); Gould, Mamm. Austr., i., -pi. xlix. (animal) 

 a851); Gunn, P. Roy. Sec. Tasm., ii., p. 81 (1852); Sclileg., 

 bierk., p. 135 (1857); Gieb., Siiug., p. 731 (1859); Gerrard, 

 Cat. Bones Mamm. B.M., p. 135 (1862); Krefft, Cat. Mamm. 

 Austr. Mus., p. 25 (1864) ; id.. Notes Faun. Tasm., p. 4 (1868) ^ 

 id., Austr. Vert., p. 14 (1871); Schleg., Dierent., p. 158 (1872); 

 Higg. & Pett., P. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1883, p. 197; Flow. 

 & Gars., Oat. Ost. Coll. Surg., ii., p. 741 (1884); Jent., Oat. 

 Ost. Leyd. Mus., p. 304 (1887); Coll. Zool. Jalirb., ii., p. 854 

 (1887). Dasj'urus ursinus, Gieb., Bronn's Kl. U. Ordn. vi., 

 Abth. v., pi. xviii., figs. 4 & 5 (skull) (1874) (nee Harris). 



Type specimen unknown. 



The great spotted-tailed Native Cat, or as it is more 

 coimmonly called, the "Tiger Gat," is found from Queens- 

 land to Tasmania.. It is much larger than the following 

 species, measuring over twenty-four inchesi over head and 

 body, and the tail nineteen inches. Fur brown, tinged 

 orange (never black), with large white spots. Under sur- 

 face white, tinged yellow. 



Dasyurus vivesrinus, Shaw. 

 Common Native Cat. 



Dasyurus viverrinus, Br. As. Ad. Sc. Handbk., p. 51 



(1914); 

 Lucas & Le Souef, An. Aust., p. 128 



(1909) ; 

 Smith, Nat. Tas., p. 87 (1909); 

 Ogilby, Cat. Aust. Mamm., p. 16, 



(1892); 



AVeist, Hist. Tas., Ycl. I., p. 323 



(1852). 



Dasyurus viverrinus, Thomas, Cat. M. & M. Brit. Mus.^ 



p. 265, who also gives the following synonymy: — 



Spotted Opossum, Phillip, Voy. Botany Bay, r). 147, pi. 

 XV. (1789). Tapoa tafa, .spotted variety, White, Journ. Voy. 

 N.S.W., p. 285, pi. lix. (1790). Didelphis maculata, Kerr, 

 Linn. An. K., p. 199 n792) (nee viverra maculata. id., op. 

 cit., p. 170); G. Cuv. Tabl. Elem.. p. 125 (1798): Wiedem., 

 Cuv. Naturg. Thiere, i., p. 179 (1800); Turton, Linn. Syst. 

 Nat. i., p. 68 (1806). Lidelphis viverrinus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., 



