RECORDS OF IV. A. MUSEUM. 
[251 
The skull is larger than any preserved in this Museum but is 
slightly smaller than one from Tasmania, of which the measure- 
ments are given on p. 261 of the B. M. Catalogue of Marsupialia 
and Monotremata ; on the other hand, it has a longer nasal bone, a 
larger palatal foramen, a wider construction and a much smaller 
1114 than the specimen in the British Museum, points of difference 
which may be safely regarded as due to individual variation and 
the greater age of the Tasmanian animal described by Mr. 1 homas. 
In addition to this cranium the Bride’s Cave has yielded a 
fragment of the right mandible with an imperfect m3 in situ and the 
incomplete socket of m2 and the following limb bones, right 
humerus, right ulna, right femur, the distal end of the left femur and 
the left fibula. All these bones represent an animal that is not yet 
full-grown. 
Remains of the Tasmanian Devil have been found in parts 
of Eastern Australia and the animal itself has been recorded 
recently from Tooborac beyond Kilmore about 63 miles from 
Melbourne 1 where a large female was killed in September, i 9 I2 > 
and sent to the National Museum, Melbourne. It would therefore 
appear that this creature, long regarded as extinct on the Australian 
mainland, may still inhabit certain wild and secluded districts, 
rarely, if ever, visited by man. 
Measurements of the large male skull in the Collection of 
the British Museum (Natural History) from Tasmania, and 
of the skull from the Bride’s Cave, Margaret River, South- 
Western Australia, with the percentage proportions of the latter 
to the former : — 
Basal length 
Greatest breadth 
Nasals, length . . 
,, greatest breadth .. 
Constriction, breadth 
Palate, length . . . . ■ • 
width between outer corners of M3 
Palatal foramen 
Basi-Cranial axis 
Basi-Facial 
Facial index 
Teeth length, p 3 
P 4 
,, ,, mi-3 
„ breadth, U14 
B.M. Cat. 
p. 26c 
^Cave' S Proportions. 
123 
114 
92.7 
104 
99 approx 
95 i 
51 
52 
101.95 
20 
19 5 
97-5 
175 
17 5 
100.0 
75 
70 
93 3 
62 
53 7 
86.6 
6 7 
jtc immaterial, 
^ depends 
upon a^e 
33 
35 5 
93 A 
»5 
79 
92.94 
224 
222.5 
99 3 
6 8 
6 5 
95 6 
35 2 
32 5 
92-3 
9 5 
6, 
52.0 
1 J. A. Kershow, Vic. Nat. XXIX, p. 76, 1912. 
