B.--
<i>P. cockerelli</i>, Ramsay.

Common Rabbit B.--
<i>Peragale lagotis</i>, Reid.

Desert B.--
<i>P. eremiana</i>, Spencer.

Doria's B.--
<i>Perameles dorerana</i>, Quoy & Gaim.

Golden B.--
<i>P. aurata</i>, Ramsay.

Gunn's B.--
<i>P. gunni</i>, Gray.

Less Rabbit B.--
<i>Peragale minor</i>, Spencer.

Long-nosed B.--
<i>Perameles nasuta</i>, Geoffr.

Long-tailed B.--
<i>P. longicauda</i>, Peters & Doria.

North-Australian B.--
<i>P. macrura</i>, Gould.

Port Moresby B.--
<i>P. moresbyensis</i>, Ramsay.

Raffray's B.--
<i>P. rafrayana</i>, Milne-Edw.

Short-nosed B.--
<i>P. obesula</i>, Shaw.

Striped B.--
<i>P. bougainvillii</i>, Quoy & Gaim.

White-tailed Rabbit B.--
<i>P. lesicura</i>. Thomas.

Pig-footed B.--
<i>Choeropus castanotis</i>, Gray.

1802. D. Collins, `Account of New South Wales',
vol. ii. p. 188 (Bass's Diary at the Derwent, January 1799):

"The bones of small animals, such as opossums, squirrels,
kangooroo rats, and bandicoots, were numerous round their
deserted fire-places."

1820. W. C. Wentworth, `Description o New South Wales,' p. 3:

"The animals are, the kangaroo, native dog (which is a smaller
species of the wolf), the wombat, bandicoot, kangaroo-rat,
opossum, flying squirrel, flying fox, etc. etc."

1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. i.
p. 316

"The bandicoot is about four times he size of a rat, without
a tail, and burrows in the ground or in hollow trees."

1832. Bischoff, `Van Diemen's Land,' vol. ii. p. 28:

"The bandicoot is as large as a rabbit. There are two kinds,
the rat and the rabbit bandicoot."

1845. R. Howitt, `Australia,' p. 233:

"The common people are not destitute of what Wordsworth calls
`the poetry of common speech,' many of their similes being very
forcibly and naturally drawn from objects familiarly in sight
and quite Australian. `Poor as a bandicoot,' `miserable as a
shag on a rock.'"

Ibid. p. 330:

"There is also a rat-like animal with a swinish face, covered
with ruddy coarse hair, that burrows in the ground--the
bandicoot. It is said to be very fine eating."

1845. J. O. Balfour, `Sketch of New South Wales,' p. 26:

"The bandicoot is the size of a large rat, of a dark brown
colour; it feeds upon roots, and its flesh is good eating.
This animal burrows in the ground, and it is from this habit,
I suppose, that when hungry, cold, or unhappy, the Austra