256 DASTTTEID^. 



(1817) ; Oeoff. Diet. Sci. Nat. xii. p. 510 (1818) ; Desm. Mamm. 



i. p. 262 (1820) ; JDesmoul. Diet. Class. cHH. N. v. p. 338 (1824); 



Gray, Gnff. Cuv. An. K. v. p. 192 (1827). 

 Thylacinus hamsi, Temm. Mem. Mamm. i. p. 63, pi. vii. figs. 1-4 



(skull) (1827); Less. Man. Mamm. p. 216 (1827) > id. Cent. 



Zool. p. 14, pi. ii. (animal and skuU) (1830) ; Kawp, Thierr. i. 



p. 239 (1835) ; Less. H. N. Mamm. {Cornel. Buff.) v. p. 367, 



pi. xxvi. (animal) (1836) ; Waterh. Cat. Mamm. Mus. Z. 8, 



p. 64 (1838) ; Owen, P. Z. S. 1838, p. 121 et seqq. ; id. Tr. Z. S. ii. 



pp. 317 & 408, pi. Ixx. fig. 1 (skull) (1841) ; id. P. Z. S. 1843, p. 148 ; 



id. Odontogr., Atl. pi. xcviii. %. 1 (teetH) (1845); id. TodWs 



Cyclop. Anat. Phys. iii. p. 258, fig. 80 (teett) (1847) ; Less. N. 



Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 190 (1842). 

 Thylacinus cynocephalus, Msch. 8yn. Mamm. p. 270 (1829) ; Pearson, 



J. A. S. B. iv. p. 672, pi. xlviii. fig. 49 (dentition) (1835) ; Ounn, 



Ann. Mag. N. S. (1) i. p. 101 (1838) (habits) ; Gray, Grey's 



Austr., App, ii. p. 400 (1841) ; Tf^aterh. Jard. Nat. Libr., Mamm. 



xi. p. 123, pi. V. (animal) (1841) ; Wagn. Schr. Sdug. Supp. iii. 



p. 19, (1843), V. p. 193 (1855); Schims, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 489 



(1844) ; Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 456, pi. xvii. flg. 2 (ammal), 



& xxi. fig. 3 (skull) (1846) ; Gunn, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 90, pi. xviii. 



(animal) ; Gavid, Mamm. Austr. i. pis. liii., liv. (animal) (1851) ; 



Gvmn, P. Roy. Soc. Tasm. ii. p. 80 (1852) ; Crisp, P. Z. S. 1855, 



p. 188 (anat.) ; Gerv. S. N. Mamm. ii. p. 280, figs, (skeleton, 



teeth, & animal) (1855) ; Gieb. Odontogr. p. 39, pi. xviii. fig. 10 



(teeth) (1855) ; Scfdeg. Dierh. p. 134 (1857) ; Gieb. Siiitg. p. 784 



(1859) ; Gunn, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 103 (habits) ; Krefft, Notes Favm. 



Tasm. p. 4 (1868) ; id. Austr. Vert. p. 14 (1871) ; Sehleg. Bierent. 



p. 157 & fig. (ammal) (1872) ; Seott, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 355 ; Gieb. 



Bromis Kl. u. Ordn, vi. Abth. v. pi. six. figs. 2 & 3 (skull) (1874); 



Ownningham, J. Anat. Phys. xii. p. 427 (1878) (anat. limbs) ; id. 



Rep. Voy. ' Challenger,' Zool. v. pt. 2, pis. i.-xiii. (1882) (anat.) ; 



Brehm, Thierl. ii. p. 545 & figs, (skeleton & animal) (1880) ; Dobs. 



J. Anat. Phys. xvii. p. 154 (1882) (anat. feet) ; Flow. Fneyel. 



Brit. (9) XV. p. 380, fig. 26 (animal) (1883) ; Higg. ^Pett. P.Ray. 



Soc. Tasm. 1883, p. 197 ; Flow. %■ Gars. Cat. Ost. Coll. Surg. ii. 



p. 745 (1884) ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 305 (1887). 

 Lycaon cynocephalus, Wagl. Syst. Amph. Sdug. p. 24 (1830). 

 Dasyurus lucocephalus. Grant, Glean. Sci. iii. p. 175 (1831). 

 Thylacinus striatus, Warhw, J. A. S. B. ii. p. 97 (1833). 

 Peracyon cynocephalus, G7-ay, List Mamm. B. M. p. 97 (1843) ; 



Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 133 (1862). 

 Thylacinus breviceps, Ereffl, Ann. Mag. N, H. (4) ii. p. 296, pi. xvii. 



(skull) (1868) ; id. Notes Faun. Tasm. p. 4 (1868) ; id. Austr. 

 Vert. p. 14 (1871). 



Thtlaoinb oe Tasmania^ Woif. 



Fur short, close and crisp. General colour pale finely grizzled 

 grey-brown, with a faint yellowish or tawny tinge ; the head, back 

 of ears, body, limbs, and greater part of tail being of this colour. 

 Eound eyes, edges and a spot at base of ears paler, nearly white. 

 Posterior back with about 16 or 17 dark blackish-brown bands, 

 contrasting prominently with the pale ground-colour of the back ; 

 bands on rump descending outside the hips nearly to the knee ; 

 bands on middle back becoming shorter and narrower anteriorly 



