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 Order MARSUPIATA.

Section MONOTREMATA.

Genus, Blumenb.

1. Ornithorhynchus anatinus

Habitat. New South Wales and Tasmania. Victoria and South Australia?

Genus, Cuv.

2. Echidna hystrix

Habitat. New South Wales, Victoria, the islands in Bass's Straits. Southern and Western Australia?

3. Echidna setosa, Cuv.

Habitat. Van Diemen's Land.

Genus, Waterh.

4. Myrmecobius fasciatus, Waterh.

Habitat. Western Australia, and parts of South Australia.

Genus, Gerv. et Verr.

5. Tarsipes rostratus, ''Gerv. et Verr.''

Habitat. Western Australia.

Mr. Waterhouse is of opinion that this animal is most nearly allied to the Dromiciæ, yet he has not placed it near that form in his 'History of the Mammalia.'

Genus, Ogilby.

6. Chœropus castanotis, Gray

Habitat. Interior of New South Wales, South and Western Australia.

Genus, Gray.

7. Peragalea lagotis

Habitat. Western Australia.

Genus, Geoff.

8. Perameles fasciata, Gray