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of the tips of the hairs: on the under parts of the body each 
hair is pale grey at the root, and dusky white externally: the 
feet are dirty white, indistinctly grizzled with brownish; this 
latter tint being most distinct on the sides of the toes. The 
ears are short and rounded ; externally clothed with longish 
hairs, which are partly brown and partly white; the hairs on 
the inner side of the ears are dirty white. The upper incisors 
are very small; the posterior two on either side of tiro jaw 
project very little from the gum; the foremost two, however, 
are much longer, descending much below the level of the 
crowns of the hinder incisors: the canine is small, and 
situated scarcely one-twelfth of an inch distant from the 
incisors. The zygomatic arches (so far as one may judge from 
the skull as enclosed in the skin) must be thrown boldly out 
from the cranium, and thus give the breadth to the face 
which suggested the specific name. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from nosa to root of tail ... ... 12 0 
** of tail (about) ... . 7 6 
“ of tarsus, including the nails ... 2 8 
“ of ear ... ... ... . 10 
** from nose to ear, ubout ... 2 7 
The specimeu from which the above description is taken 
formerly belonged to Mr. Gould, and is now in the British 
Museum collection. It is labelled as coming from “ Walyema 
Swamps, about forty miles nortli-east of Northam, Western 
Australia.” It is the only individual of the species yet trans¬ 
mitted to England. The fur on the upper ports of its body 
is very distinctly pencilled with white. 
As partaking, to a certain extent, of the characters of the 
Kangaroo group on the one hand, and of the Wombats on 
the other, 1 will here notice the extraordinary fossil remains 
described by Professor Owen under the names of IJqmdodov 
and No to t tit ri tun. 
