Zoology.'] 



NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. 



\Mammalia. 



posterior cusps to them all except the last upper one, in which they 

 are indistinct ; and I also give wood-cuts of the anterior and pos- 

 terior limbs, to show the difference of the lobes and nails when com- 

 pared with Mr. Clark's 

 figure of 0. Forsteri in 

 his paper above referred 

 to — in ours the lobes 

 between the fingers of 

 the pectoral not being 

 marked, and the three 

 middle lobes of the 

 hind limb being as long 

 as the external ones — 

 presenting thus obvious 

 differences. 



All the specimens 

 described above were 

 killed at the Heads, 



Anterior and posterior fins, about l-5th natural size. 



near Queenscliff. 



Explanation of Figures. 



Plate 31. — Fig 1, profile in swimming position. Fig. la, profile of skull l-6th natural size. 

 Fig. 16, front view of ditto, showing the great, canine-like, outer, upper incisor teeth. Fig. lc, 

 half of palate and teeth, £ natural size. Fig. Id, ditto lower jaw. Fig. le, one of the molars, 

 natural size. 



half-a-mile. It lived three hours after it was caught. If you will buy it, I think it would be 

 the means of completing your observations on Seals. — Yours truly (signed) Ltjdwig Becker. 



" Length, from end of tail to tip of nose, 2 feet 5 inches. Color : the back of head, back and 

 under side of feet, and the whole back, of a brownish-black ; the hair on the roots whitish 5 

 belly brown ; eyes dark-blue. Forearms in the middle of whole body. Head large in proportion 

 to the length of the animal. I see some difference in the form and setting of the nails from the 

 one I already lithographed. There are also differences in the dental system ; but I think this 

 and the peculiar shortness of body, the color of fur, &c, &c, to be the result of the specimen 

 being a young one. I think it is worth to be bought for the Museum, it being fresh enough for 

 proper setting ; but haste mu9t be made with, otherwise the hot weather will spoil it. Wilhelmi 

 skinned it already. I believe the specimen is fully worth the price paid for the old one. — L. B." 



Frederick McCoy, 



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