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Rather less than Mfus rattus, and of a stouter form ; remark- 
able for the great length and softness of its fur and the brown 
colour of its feet. Found also in South Australia, where it 
is the “ water-rat” of the colonists. 1 have recently sent to 
Mr. J. E. Gray, of the British Museum, specimens of two 
species of Mws, which do not agree with any of the above. 
One is similar in size to M7. fuscipes, but differs in the form 
of the muzzle, in the colour of the feet, and in some other 
respects. The other is much smaller, and appears from the 
length of its hind legs to belong to the jumping division of 
mice. They were caught by a domestic cat at the St. 
Patrick’s River, near Launceston. 
Ord. MARSUPIALIA.* 
8. Thylacinus cynocephalus, HARRIs. 
Didelphis cynocephala, Harris, Linn. Trans. vol. ix. 
pe LAs pl. 1g: 
Dasyurus cynocephalus, Grorrroy. Ann. du Museum, 
tome xy. p. 804.—WaTERHOUSE, Nat. Library (Mar- 
supialia), vol. xi. p. 128, pl. 5. 
Thylacinus Harrisii, TEMMINCK, Monograph. de Mam- 
mal., tome 1. p. 68, pl. 7. 
Peracyon cynocephalus, J. E. Gray, List of the Mam- 
malia in the Brit. Museum, 1848, p. 97. Tiger and 
Hyeena of the colonists of Tasmania, to which it is 
confined. 
This animal is found all over the island, from the sea coast 
to the summits of the mountains, 4000 feet above the sea 
level. It is the largest indigenous Australian carnivorous 
Mammal. 
* Tam indebted to Mr. Waterhouse’s “ Natural History of the Mammalia,” 
vol. 1., for all the Synonymes quoted relative to the Marsupialia and Mono- 
tremaia, and I have invariably adopted his views as to the different species. 
