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THYLACINUS CYNOOEPHALUS. 
Dog-headed Thylacinus. 
(Plate 16, fig. 2). 
Didelphis cynocephala. 
Harris, Transactions of the Linn ran Society, 
vol. ix. p. 174, PL 19. 1S07. 
Geoffroy, Annales du Museum, tom. it. p. 304. 
Pisciikr, Synopsis Mammalium, p. 270. 
A. Wagner, in Schreb. Stag. Snppl. 109—110 
Heft, p. 19. 
Waterhouse, Nat. Library (Marsupialis), roLxi. 
p. 123, PL 5. 
Temminck, Monographic* de Mammxlogie, roL i. 
p. 63. PL 7, figs. 1—I.—the skull and lower jaw. 
Peracyon cynocrphalus , the Tasmanian Wolf. Gray, List of the Mammalia 
in the British Museum (1813), p. 97. 
Tiger, Hytena, Zebra*Opossum, Zebra-Wolf, and Dog-headed Opossum of 
the colonists. 
Dasyurtu cynoccphahu. 
Thylacinus “ 
Thylacinus Harrisii. 
About equal in size to the Common Wolf; head formed like that 
of a Dog; tail about half the length of the body; fur short, 
and closely applied to the skin ; general colour grey-brown; 
the back with from about twelve to fourteen transverse black 
bands, narrow and short on the fore parts of the back, 
longer ami broader on the hinder parts; region of the ere 
pale; tail with short fur, nearly like that of the body, 
excepting on the under side of the apical portion, and at the 
tip, where the hairs are comparatively long. 
Inhabits Van Diemen’s Land. 
The general resemblance which the Thylacinus bears to a 
Wolf or largo Dog, 1ms struck many, and, indeed, has caused 
it to be, by some, arranged amongst the ordinary Carnivora 1 
1 The Thylacinus is arranged by Mr. Swainson amongst the Ft lid*, or Ctt 
Family, and in support of hi* views, the Author quotes some obsvrratiocu 
from Temminck with rr^rd »«» the dentition of tin animal. Mr Swainsoo, 
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