86 List of the Mammals indigenous to Tasmania. 
Womback, BEwicx, Quad. 
Wombat, Cottiss, N. 8. Wales, p. 158, with plate. 
“Wombat” and ‘‘ Badger” of the Colonists. 
In addition to the above synonymes the genus has been 
called Vombatus by Geoffroy and Amdlotis by Illiger. 
The Wombats of Tasmania differ much in colour in dif- 
ferent localities ; some being a dirty black, and others of a 
silvery gray. JI have been unsuccessful in detecting two 
species here, although both P. Wombat and P. latifrons are 
at Port Phillip. Wombats are found on the tops of the 
mountains, and thence to the sea-coasts. They are very 
numerous in some localities, 284 having been killed in less 
than a year upon a farm at present occupied by me on the 
St. Patrick’s River. 
22. Hypsiprymnus (Potorous) murinus, ILLIGER. 
Macropus minor, SHaw, Gen. Zool. vol. i. pt. 2, p. 513, 
pl. 116. 
Hypsiprymnus murinus, ILLIGER, Prod. Syst. Mamm. 
p. 79. 
Potorous murinus, Drsm., Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat. 
KXVill. p. 79. 
Hypsiprymnus setosus, OGILBY, Devic! Zool. Soc. 1831, 
p. 149. 
—— Peron, Quoy & GaiM., Zool, del Uranie, 
p. 64. 
1835, p. 62. 
Poto-Roo, or Kangaroo Rat, Waite, Journ. Voy. N.S.W. 
p- 286 & pl. 
“ Kangaroo Rat” of the Colonists. 
238. Hypsiprymnus (Bettongia) cuniculus, OGILBY, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1838, p. 63 ; WATERHOUSE, Marsupialia, 
p. 186. 
? myosorus, OGILBY, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
