Phascolomys ursinus (Shaw). 
(Reconstructed by Spencer and Kershaw, Mem. Nat. Mus., Melb., 1910.) 
In November of last year (1916) a skull of the Straits Island wombat 
was found by Air. S. Riddle on Cape Barren Island, and through the kindness 
of Mr. L. L. Waterhouse, of the Tasmanian Geological Survey Department, 
was presented to our Museum. 
The wombat has been extinct upon Cape Barren Island for years, and 
the finding of this skull so far constitutes a new discovery, since no specimen 
from that locality has been hitherto recorded, or found its way into any 
Museum collection. 
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