93 



other, a yellow, slender, and smaller kind, was much more rare. I have had 

 this account of a yellow wallaby on Flinders Island corroborated from a quite 

 independent source. 



In the Adelaide Museum are three wallaby skulls from the island, received 

 in 1892. These skulls have the name "Macropus ciigenii" pencilled on them, 

 and are so registered. In their general features they offer no striking differences 

 from the Kangaroo Island wallaby; but one skull bears a tied-on label stating 

 that it belonged to a "light and uniform coloured wallaby," which is scarcely 

 the description of the pelage of a normal eugenii. For the present we must be 

 content to know that the animal, be there one species or two, is living. 



Fig. 9. 

 Pctrogale pcarsoni. 

 Lateral view of the skull of an adult male. One and a half times natural size. 



For the future, it is surely a duty incumbent on our scientific institutions 

 to rescue some of the remaining stock and place it in the sanctuary of Flinders 

 Chase. 



The following are the measurements of the three skulls in the Adelaide 

 Museum : — 





? 



Male. 



? 





No. 1749. 



No. 1750. 



No. 1751 



Greatest length 



90 



91 



97 



Condylo-basal length 



84 



85 



92 



Zygomatic breadth 



46 



49 



49 



Palatal foramen . . 



3 



3 



4 



Length of P 



5 



4 



4-5 



Length of Mi-3 



15 



16 



17 



Price Island. — When on the top of Price Island in 1920, I noted what 

 I felt certain were the runs of wallabies, though I saw no definite foot prints. 

 The bush vegetation of the island plateau is very dense in certain places, and 

 affords plenty of cover. It is possible that what I saw were the runs of the 

 descendants of a pair of Kangaroo Island wallabies landed some years ago upon 

 the island ; but owing to the difficulty of landing these animals in the heavy 

 sea that was running at the time, it is open to doubt if both members of the 



