THE KOALA. 
aao 
sidcrnbly smaller anil shorter than the remaining two, of which 
the first is the largest. 
Tail wanting. 
Stomach with a cardiac glandular apparatus: cacum greatly 
developed 1 2 . 
PHASCOLARCTUS CINEREU8. 
The Koala. 
(Plate 9, Fig. 2.) 
Lipurut cinerev*. Goldfuss, in Isis, p. 271. 1819. 
Phascolarctosfuscux. Desmarbst, Mammalogic, p. 276. 1820. 
•• “ 11 Diet, dcs Sd. Nat. t. xxxix. p. 448. 
1826. 
44 Flinderxii. Lesson, Manuel de Mammal, p. 221. 1827. 
“ futevs el cinereux. Fischer, Synopsis Mammal, p. 285. 1829. 
44 44 41 Wagner, Schreb. Saug. 111-112 Heft, 
p. 92. 1842. 
44 cinereux. Gray, List of the Species of Mammalia in the Coll, 
of the Brit. Mus. p. 97. 1843. 
Koala Wombat (Patterson). Home, in Phil. Trans, p. 304. 1808. 
he Koala ou Colak. Desmarest, Nouy. Diet. t. xvii. p. 110, Tab. E. 22, 
fig. 4. 1817. 
Wombat of Flinders. Knox, in Edinburgh New Philos. Journal, p. 111. 
1826. 
Koala, and Wombat of the natives; Native Bear , and Native Sloth of the 
colonists. 
Length of head and body about two feet: fur dense, woolly, and 
moderately soft: general colour ashy grey, slightly inclining 
to brown; hinder part of back dirty yellowish white ; under 
parts dirty white; inner side of hind legs of a brownish 
1 The coecum in the Koala, the only known spedes belonging to the present 
genus, is said to be more than three times the length of the animal. In a 
young male specimen, dissected by Mr. Martin, the coecum measured 4 feet 
2 inches in length, and was slightly puckered equidistantly, or nearly so, 
throughout its whole leugth, into sacculi, by a slight longitudinal (mesenteric) 
band of muscular fibres. Sec Proceedings of the Zool. Society for 1836, 
Part iv. p. 111. 
