356 STUDIES IN THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS 



APPENDIX D 



The innumerable mammals which are fully or vestigially spotted or striped, 

 can be seen in Museums and Zoological Gardens, but it may not be generally 

 known that many marsupials give indication of having descended from a 

 spotted or striped ancestry, as the following Hst, taken from Gould on the 

 Mammals of Australia, will amply show : — 



No. I. — Antechimcs maculatus has white spots on the abdomen only. 



No. 2. — Dasyurus maculaUis is brown, spotted with white on the body, and 

 also on the tail. 



No. 3. — Dasyurus viverrinus (variable Dasyure), is either black or olive 

 colour, spotted with white on the body only. Other Dasyures are also 

 spotted. 



No. 4. — Halmahtrus Derbyaniis (Derby's Wallaby) is spotted. 



No. 5. — A variety of Petrogale xa7itJwpus (yellow-footed rock Wallaby) is 

 faintly spotted and faintly ring-tailed also. 



No. 5. — Lagorchertes Leichhardti is spotted. 



There are other Marsupials which are variously marked : — 



No. 7. — Wombats, such as Phascolomys, have faint spots in various parts. 



Then the following are very distinctly marked : — 



No. 8. — Parameles Giinnii, banded transversely. 



No. 9. — Tarsipes rostratus has three longitudinal bands. 



No. 10. — Myrmecobius fasciatus is banded like a Zebra. Thylacinus 

 cynocephalus (Tasmanian Wolf), — see Appendix A, No. 7, — has broad black 

 bands. 



No. II. — Macropus fuliginosus (Sooty Kangaroo) has vestiges of stripe 

 on various parts ; 



No. 12. — Lagorchertes fasciatus (banded Hare- Kangaroo) is banded like a 

 Zebra on hindquarters, with a spinal band, and it has faint spots on other 

 parts. 



