K OBUS ELLIPSIPRYMNUS. 
. i Bp, hv a narrow fissure which extends nearly half way 
divided into two lobe y tw0 small hhai G n its concave sur- 
from the iower towar . Pl^ fi Jj| attache d to the concave surface of 
to iivet “d Slower ext« m ity descends a little below the inferior edge of 
the viscus. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Ft. Inch. 
Length from the nose to the base of the tail 6 
from the nose to the base of the 
horns 
of the tall . . 
of the ears 
Height at the croup 
shoulder 
10 
0 
8 
9 
3 
0 
Length of the horns 
Distance between the horns at the base 
between the horns at the great- 
est curvature outwards , . . 
between the points of the horns 
between the nose and the eye 
eye and the ear 
Inch. Lin. 
24 0 
2 0 
11 
8 
9 
4 
6 
6 
6 
0 
( Female . Plate XXIX.) . 
The figure of the/^is more delicate ton ^ Zo 
Wer^gTo LTblg 1-“ the russet-brown to darken the yellowrsh- 
erev. She has four inguinal mamma:. 
This animal, which lias from thC j^ tyour party till after 
natives, tt is neve, met with to the southward of the high ends, which ^ ^ 
of the locality mentioned^ To J "" tm £****, near the margins of streams. 
r.erri d ;r;,m rttth .«/„ - z 
marking upon the circumstance to the Aborigines b t ley ga ^ ^ lwo or three 
one which might he regarded a. mature. The natives 
were of opinion that the saves were produced in about 
assumed fuel in support of the propriety of polygamy as it «»* “ 6 ^proportion between 
n. 
males and fe "“ it . b nt the circumstance was always accounted for m a differ- 
the colony and mo , c „„,e,sed on the subject. It was affirmed that the great 
ent way b >.I> ers ° „„„ arose f,„„ the adult males driving out the young ones from 
supenonty “* ”“ b f ^ forcing them to live apart until they had acquired the strength 
the socle y o ’ ^ ^ place a mixed society, which was not probably before 
necessary to enable 1 ^ ^ to eJiisl , a „d left room for the few able-bodied to 
some proportion of ^ in exle „di„g l0 others that line of discipline to winch 
they 'themselves had been subjected. It is possible this may be the eorreet mode of ac- 
