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Rh are numerous everywhere (in Van Diemen’s Land), they burrow in the ground universally, as far as I have seen, and live principally on roots. I knew one gentleman’s entire collection of Cape bulbs,

GUNN’sS BANDICOOT.

principally Bambianee, eaten by them, and I suffered considerably myself, having lost some entire species of bulbs through these animals.” On this, Mr. Waterhouse inquires, “May not these animals destroy the bulbs to get at insects with which they are infested ?”