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PHASCOLOMYS LASIORHINUS, Gow.

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Heab, OF THE SIZE OF LIFE.

Turs full-sized representation of the head of this new and highly interesting species of
Professor M‘Coy,

Wombat has been executed partly from a fine drawing sent to me by

mple now in the Gardens of the Zoological Society.

of Melbourne, and partly from an exa
covered with fine white hairs, through

This living animal exhibits a fleshy muzzle, partially
which the pink flesh-tint shows very conspicuously. Mr. Bartlett, the superintendent, i-

hat, after carefully comparing Professor M‘Coy’s drawing with the Society’s

forms me t

animal, he has no doubt of its 1 example identical m species.

having been made from al
For further particulars respecting the Phascolomys lasiorhinus, the reader is referred to
which will be found in the next

the interesting notes by Mr. Angas and Professor M‘Coy,

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