Zoology.] 



NATUKAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. 



[Mammalia, 



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over the eye in 0. Forsteri, our species shows a great convexity 

 there, the concavity in the male being at half-way between the eye 



and the tip of the snout, 

 making the head much shorter 

 and rounder in profile than in 

 the N. Zealand species. The 

 female and young have the 

 head still shorter and rounder, 

 and our figure shows that the 

 nostrils are more nearly termi- 

 nal in the young, on a blunt 

 muzzle. 



The hair is moderately 

 coarse, and about \\ inches 

 long on back of neck of male, 

 and rather more than f of an 

 inch on the back, and about 

 1 inch long on belly. The 

 individual hairs on neck and 

 back are mostly light-yellowish 

 grey throughout, mixed with rather fewer of a blackish-brown 

 colour, having tip and small part of base of a pale -yellowish 

 colour ; the hairs below are uniform dark brown, except a small 

 portion of base, which is nearly colourless. 



Explanation of Figures. 

 Plate 71. — The left-hand figure is an adult female, with the lower rounded profile of the 

 head found in that sex. The large upper middle figure is an adult male, showing the elevation 

 of the forehead produced by the more prominent occipital crest of the skull, giving the 

 characteristic profile of the old male ; also showing the longer hair of the neck and breast, 

 constituting an imperfect mane, found only in this sex. The right-hand figure is a front view 

 of an old male to show the narrow, elevated mesial ridge of the head. The middle lower figure 

 represents the dark young in an attitude taken, like the others, from life. 



Frederick McCoy. 



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