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incisor of the left side ; several second upper incisors, and a portion of the crown of a 
compressedly triangular tusk. These are described in detail by Mr. De Vis, and 
compared with their supposed living homologues. On the general question the Author 
remarks : — “ It is truly a remarkable fact that New Guinea swine have never, to our 
knowledge, accomplished the short pa.ssage between the northern and southern shores of 
Torres Straits, or, having done so, failed to establish themselves where the European pig 
finds it easy to recover and maintain its independence.” lie concludes by sta.ting that 
the comparative frequency of its teeth shows that it was not altogether a rare member 
of the Post-Pliocene Pauna of Queensland. 
Loe. and Horizon. Sharrow and other localities. Darling Downs {0. W. De Vis 
Colin. Queensland Mus.) — Pluviatile deposits. 
Order— PEOBOSCIDEA. 
Pamily— ELEPHA N TIDiE. 
Oenus — NOTOELDPHAS, Owen, 1882. 
(Proc. R. Soo.,xxxiii., p. 448.) 
Notobl3:phas atjstealis, Oloen. 
Xfotoelephas australis, Phil. Trans. 1883, clxxiii., Pt. 3, p. 777, t. 51. 
Ohs. This genus and species were founded on portions of a tusk indicating a 
mammal larger than Diprotodon, in fact the largest fossil mammal yet foreshadowed 
amongst the extinct Australian forms. Sir Eichard Owen appears to regard it as a 
Proboscidian Placental. He says, “ Supposing the dingo to he a human introduction 
into the Australian Continent,* we here have a gyrencephalous exception to the 
characteristic aboriginal mammalian organisation of that remote southern continent. 
He does not appear to apprehend any connection between this tusk and the molar tooth 
formerly described by him, and forming a portion of the late Count P. E. de Strzelecki s 
Collection. Prof. Owen remarks that this molar is too largo to be associated with the 
tusk, supposing the latter to have come from the upper jaw of a full-grown individual 
of its species. Up to the time of the publication of his “ Eossil Mammals of Australia,” 
Owen had received no confirmatory evidence from the Australian Continent of the 
former existence of any animal to which this molar could have belonged. 
Grave doubts have been expressed by several Writers as to the probability of 
this tooth as an Australian fossil, and it would perhaps he better to expunge it from the list. 
Zoc. and Horizon. Darling Downs {The late F. N. Isaac ) — Pluviatile deposits. 
In closing this very brief and imperfect account of the Post-Tertiary vertebrate 
remains of Queensland, it may not he out of place to refer to the “ Groat Bone Beds” of 
Mount Guthrie, Berserker Eanges, near Eockhampton. Prom the notes of the late Mr. 
James Smith, who investigated this deposit, it would appear to be a tufaceous limestone 
containing the remains of leaves and shells, probably Helix, but I have not been able to 
satisfactorily determine the presence of bones in the specimens I have seen. The 
matrix very much resembles the Hobart Travertin, but is more friable and stalagmitic, 
and lighter in colour. 
E. 
* Ample evidence now exists to show that the Dingo was coeval with these extinct marsupials both in 
New South Wales and Victoria. 
