Ciihill to Professor W. Baldwin 

 Spencer dale! 9 April. L923, pcr- 



taintng to live sjJecfrneiW purchased 

 o! Mrs. CHUIl tin- previous year: 

 kakadu name Itarr-ark. loud 

 grass and herbs. Lives in caves on 

 Ranges. When frightened goes into 

 dark caves. Killed by natives lor 

 food thus— spinifcx set on lire 

 causes dense smoke when animal 

 can he approached quite easily, as 

 smoke partly blinds animal, which 

 M.itnK rubbing its e\cs" 



V. ' iftltltS ctiimiiifd 



National Museum of Victoria: 

 [7,3X0-4, labelled •'Oenpelh" (41 and 

 'near Last Alligator River" (I), 

 collected in I 9] 2-1 9 I 4 by P. t ahill 

 and purchased of his wile. Mane 

 Cahill. in l'»22 (not colUrtfl in 

 1922 as siated by Ride) 



South Australian Museum: M2V 

 4. collected on the |upper| Marv 

 River in December t$|3 h\ W D 

 Dodd. 



Northern Termors Museum. NIM 

 4737. 474S, 5413, collected 55 miles 

 d0C south of Oenpelh on Deaf 

 Adder C reek in September I %«> by 



H. I Uolion, D. Howe and S. A 



Parker, the lust specimens taken 

 since 1'ilS. a lapse of J I years. 



AikiwwIcilHintenn 



I am indebted to Miss loan Dixon, 

 ( tuatot of Vertebrates, National 

 Museum of Victoria, and Mr. Petit 

 Aitkeu, Curator of Mammals. Sfeufl] 

 Australian Museum, for the loan u! 

 .specimens and for helptul comments 



also to Mi. John Edwards Hill, 



Mammal Section, liiilish Museum 

 (Nntltfill History) for mfoi malion un 

 the two hitherto unreported speci- 

 mens of M vqhusfua collected by (I 

 H, Wilkins on the King River 'ami 

 the (ioydci River 



R l Pi i 

 frith. 

 Kai 



& Calaby, J. H„ l%'i 

 Melbourne P W. Clicsh- 



\<uw w hi. | wo ,v Gvlde W the 



Native Mammals of Australia, Mcl 

 bourne: Oxford University Press. 

 Wilkins. G II.. Undiscovered 

 Ausllalia. befog M account of w 



expedition td trajieel Australia w 

 collect specimens of the rarer nntiv t 

 fauna for Hie British Museum. 1933 



1925. London. 



Tvnii I. 





At hcrnnnlus 



(Arnhem 1 and i 



Vertical sroovc in outer face 



of i :! 



Pronounced 



f-.nnl or absent 



Sides of rostrum seen liom 

 above 



Straight or 

 v. slightly 

 concave 



Slightly convex 



Length of nasal overhang 



14-17 mm WJ 



9- IS mm lf>) 



l ength of nasal overhang 

 l ength of entire nasals 



0.24-0. 2 9 (f>) 



0.1841.20 (M 



Angle subtended by outer edges 

 of nasals nt lip 



± 40" 



± f>0" 



Some cranial and dental dill'crences between Mm inpus hn tuirtlui and 



M. rdbuaut. 



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