List of the Mammals indigenous to Tasmania. 89 
“Forester Kangaroo’ ofthe Colonists; called also “ Boomer,” 
“ Old Man,” “Flying Doe,” &c. 
Ord. MONOTREMATA. 
27. Echidna setosa, Cuv. Reg. An. tome i. (1817) p. 226. 
breviaculeata, TIEDEMANN, Zoologie, 1, p.592. 
Well figured in Gould’s Mammals of Australia, part 2. 
“ Porcupine” and “Hedgehog” of the Colonists. Natural- 
ists are still in doubt whether the Echidna of V. D. Land 
(LE. setosa) is really specifically distinct from L. hystrix of 
the continent of Australia. The Tasmanian animal is distin- 
guished from the Australian by the greater length of the fur, 
so as in a great measure to hide the spines. 
28. Ornithorhynchus anatinus, SHAW. 
Platypus anatinus, SHaw, Nat. Misc. vol. x. pl. 385, 
Gen. Zool. vol. i. p. 229, pp. 66, 67; Gray, Cat. 
Mam. Brit. Mus. 1843, p. 191. 
Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, BLUMEN., VoreT’s Mag. 11. 
p- 305, pl. 41; Home, Phil. Trans. 1800, p. 482, 
and 1802, -p. 67; Cuvier, Reg. Anim. 1829, i. 
p- 235. 
fuscus et rufus, PERON, Voy. de 
Decouv. i. t. 34; LEacu, Zool. Misc. il. p. 136, t. 3. 
— brevirostris, OGILBY, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1831, p. 150. 
— crispusetlevis, MACGILLIVRAY, Mem. 
_ of the Wernerian Soc. 1882, p. 127. 
“Platypus” and ‘‘ Water-mole’ of the Colonists. 
From the preceding List it will be perceived that we 
possess 27 species of Mammals, described as inhabiting this 
island (omitting the Seals and Cetacea) ; and to these have 
to be added one Dromicia, and probably two species of 
