from Professor Stirling's paper: 



" It appears that the first specimen was captured by Mr. 

 Win. Coulthard, manager of the Frew River Station and other 

 Northern runs belonging to the Willowie Pastoral Company. 

 Attracted by some peculiar tracks on reaching his camp one 

 evening on the Finke River, while traversing the Llracowra 

 Station with cattle, he followed them up and found the animal 

 lying under a tussock of spinifex, or porcupine grass (Triodia 

 irritans). Though he is an old bush ban. I, with all the watch- 

 ful alertness and powers of observation usually acquired by 

 those who live lives of difficulty and danger, this was the first 

 and only specimen of the animal he ever saw. As previously 

 stated, this found its way to the museum through the agency 

 of Messrs. Benham and Molineaux. The three subsequently 

 received shortly afterwards, as well as the last lot recently 

 secured by Mr. Bishop during our journey through the coun- 

 try, were also found on the Idracowra Station. This is a large 

 cattle-run, comprising several hundred square miles of country 

 in the Southern part of the Northern Territory of South Aus- 



