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Again, the fact that St. Peter's was the island which by the French navi- 

 gators was named L'ile Eugene is important in connection with the nomeclature 

 of certain insular and continental wallabies. A specimen, presumed to be of 

 the St. Peter Island wallaby, was said to have been taken by Peron and Lesueur 

 to Paris,"^^^ where, first regarded as a young example of Macro pus ruficollis, it 



Fig. 8. 



Pctrogale pcarsoni. 

 Dorsal aspect of skull of an adult male. One and a half times natural size. 

 A small OS bregmaticum is present. 



(1) Desmarest's original description is not available in Adelaide, but Waterhouse gives a 

 translation (Mammalia, p. 40, 1846). This description seems hardly to apply to the animal 

 described by Flinders and Peron. Waterhouse also adds this note : — "That specimen, he 

 (Desmarest) says, to his knowledge, once was labelled as being from St. Peter Island, 

 and subsequently the label was changed for one giving Eugene Island as the habitat; both 

 islands, however, are in Nuyts Archipelago." The dual nomenclature of the islands has here led 

 Waterhouse astray. Later on he says of M. eugenii that it "is said to be from Eugene 

 Island, on the West Coast." 



