THYLACINUS CYNOCEPHALUS. 
Thylacinus. 
Head, of the size of life. 
When the comparatively small island of Tasmania becomes more densely populated, and 
its primitive forests are intersected with roads from the eastern to the western coast, the 
numbers of this singular animal will speedily diminish, extermination will have its full sway, 
and it will then, like the Wolf in England and Scotland, be recorded as an animal of 
the past : although this will be a source of much regret, neither the shepherd nor the 
farmer can be blamed for wishing to rid the island of so troublesome a creature. A price 
is already put upon the head of the native Tiger, as it is called; but the fastnesses of 
the Tasmanian rocky gullies, clothed with impenetrable forests, will, for the present, pre- 
serve it from destruction. 
I trust my readers will duly estimate the life-sized head, taken from the living animal. 
For all that is known respecting the Thylacinus cynocephalus, the reader is referred to the 
account given with the reduced figures. 
