austealian natural history. 147 



Fam. Dasyurid^. 



Common native cats and the Thylacine and SarcopHlus, 

 identical with the animals now inhabiting Tasmania, were common 

 in the Wellington District in particular. Elsewhere their 

 remains are very rare. The Thylacine was the largest of our 

 carnivores. 



The teeth in the Museum collection have now been all deter- 

 mined, and there is not one which indicates the presence in former 

 times of animals which could not be referred to any one of the 

 genera enumerated in this paper. 



This closes the Ornithodelphia and Didelphia. 





