RECORDS OF W.A. MUSEUM. 
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very much weathered. They were, without exception, the teeth of 
a full grown and aged animal, as they showed signs of having been 
in use for some time. In all of them the dentine is exposed to a 
marked extent, some even have all traces of the original mid-valley 
obliterated. The teeth indentified include the first incisor and the 
first, second and fourth molars of the upper jaw, and the incisors 
and first true molar (Mi) of the lower. 
The whole series of specimens so closely resemble the figures 
in Owen’s various papers 1 that there is no doubt that they belong 
to Diprotodon australis. 
Remains of Diprotodon have been found in various localities. 
In 1883, the late E. T. Hardman 2 collected a leg bone in the 
Lennard River, neat the Devil’s Pass in West Kimberley ; in 1892, 
the Elder Exploring Expedition 3 obtained a fragment of a bone in 
the Great Victoria Desert ; Mr. F. R. Arthur found the greater 
part of a mandible to the west of Lake Darlot in 1895 4 ; and in 
1909 the writer had the good fortune to uncover a number of fairly 
perfect Diprotodon bones in the Mammoth Cave, near the Margaret 
River. Teeth however, are now recorded for the first time, and are 
a valuable addition to our knowledge of the West Australian form of 
the species, the identity of which is now beyond doubt. 
1 In Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. 
2 Hardman's Report on Geology of the Kimberley Districts 1884, p 21: — "this 
bone was identified by the late Prof McCoy as the long head of a femur 
of Diprotodon australis. 
3 Dr. E. C. Stirling, Director, National Museum, Adelaide, S.A 
4 This specimen is in the Museum Collection 
