acinus</i> (q.v.). It is the
largest carnivorous marsupial extant, and is so much like a
wolf in appearance that it well deserves its vernacular name of
<i>Wolf</i>, though now-a-days it is generally called
<i>Tiger</i>. There is only one species, <i>Thylacinus
cynocephalus</i>, and the settlers have nearly exterminated it,
on account of its fierce predatory habits and the damage it
inflicts on their flocks. The Tasmanian Government pays L1 for
every one destroyed. The Van Diemen's Land Company in the
North-West of the Island employs a man on one of its runs who
is called the "tiger-catcher."

1813. `History of New South Wales' (1818), p. 430:

"About Port Dalrymple an animal was discovered which bore some
resemblance to the hyena both in shape and fierceness; with a
wide mouth, strong limbs, sharp claws and a striped skin.
Agreeably to the general nature of New South Wales quadrupeds,
this animal has a false belly. It may be considered as the
most formidable of any which New South Wales has been yet found
to produce, and is very destructive; though there is no
instance of its attacking the human species."

1832. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 85:

"During our stay a native tiger or hyena bounded from its lair
beneath the rocks."

1880. Mrs. Meredith, `Friends and Foes,' p. 65:

"There is another charming fellow, which all the people here
call the Tiger, but as a tiger is like a great cat, and this
beast is much more like a dog, you will see how foolish this
name is. I believe naturalists call it the dog-faced opossum,
and that is not much better . . . the body is not a bit like
that of an opossum."

1892. A. Sutherland, `Elementary Geography of British
Colonies,' p. 273:

"The `Tasmanian tiger' is of the size of a shepherd's dog, a
gaunt yellow creature, with black stripes round the upper part
of its body, and with an ugly snout. Found nowhere but in
Tasmania, and never numerous even there, it is now slowly
disappearing."

<hw>Tasmanian Whiptail</hw>, <i>n</i>. a Tasmanian fish,
<i>Coryphaenoides tasmaniae</i>, family <i>Macruridae</i>,
or deep-sea Gadoids, an altogether different fish from
<i>Myliobatis aquila</i>, the <i>Eagle</i> or <i>Whiptail
Ray</i>, which also occurs in Tasmania, but is found all
over the world.

<hw>Tasmanite</hw>, <i>n</i>. a mineral. "A resinous,
reddish-brown, translucent, hydrocarbon derivative (C40H6202S),
found in certain laminated shales of Tasmania, <i>Re