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pliocene deposits of the district of Melbourne, through the kind¬ 
ness of my friend Dr. Hobson, of an extinct Wombat, a true 
Phascolomys, at least four times as large as either of the known 
existing species. 
Fossil remains of more gigantic extinct forms of Marsupialia 
(Diprotoclon, Nototherium) are described in my * Odontography*’ 
and ‘ Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia in the Museum of the Royal 
College of Surgeonsf.’ These genera have hitherto been found 
only in Australia; they combined some characters now peculiar 
to Macropus and Phascolomys. 
Art. XXI. On the Skull now exhibited at the Colonial Museum 
of Sydney, as that of the “ Bunyip :’’t In a Letter to the 
Editors of the “ Sydney Morning Herald .” By W. S. 
Maci.eay, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 
Gentlemen, —The Honorable the Speaker at the Legislative 
Council having on Friday last kindly placed in my hands for 
examination the portion of a skull, which has been sent to him 
by Mr. Edward Curr, of Port Phillip, as that of the so-called 
Bunyip or Kine Pratie, I am induced to offer the following 
account of it to the public, the more particularly, as another and 
still more extraordinary skull in my possession offers very con¬ 
siderable means for throwing light on the subject. An inscription 
on the skull sent up to Sydney from Port Phillip states, that it 
was found in 1846, on the Lower Murrumbidgee, by Mr. Atholl 
T. Fletcher. It is in some degree artificially patched up, and 
very imperfect; there being no under jaw and no lower inter¬ 
maxillary bone or incisors to the upper jaw. The upper part of 
the frontal and parietal bones are also deficient, as well as the 
sphenoidals. It is said to have been found bloody, and marks of 
gnawing teeth are visible round the upper part of it, which is 
wanting. Part of the membranes and ligaments still remain 
attached, so that this cranium far from being fossil is quite fresh. 
* Vol. i. 4tO, p. 304. t 4tO, 1845, pp. 201—323, pi. G—10. 
t This is the same skull described by Mr. James Grant at page 148 of the present volume 
of the Tasmanian Journal. — Ed> 
