894), but the name <i>Kangaroo-
Rat</i> is now so well-established that it does not seem
possible to supersede it by the, perhaps, more correct name of
<i>Rat-Kangaroo</i>. The introduction of the word
<i>Kangaroo</i> prevents any possibility of confusion between
this animal and the true rodent, and it would seem to be a
matter of indifference as to which word precedes or follows the
other.]

1788. Governor Phillip (Despatch, May 15), in `Historical
Records of New South Wales,' vol. I. pt. ii. p. 135:

"Many trees were seen with holes that had been enlarged by the
natives to get at the animal, either the squirrel, kangaroo
rat, or opossum, for the going in of which perhaps they wait
under their temporary huts, and as the enlarging these holes
could only be done with the shell they used to separate the
oysters from the rocks, must require great patience."

1793 Governor Hunter, `Voyage,' p. 61:

"As most of the large trees are hollow by being rotten in the
heart, the opossum, kangaroo-rat, squirrel, and various other
animals which inhabit the woods, when they are pursued,
commonly run into the hollow of a tree."

1802. G. Barrington, `History of New South Wales,' c. xi.
p. 430:

"The poto roo, or kangaroo-rat. . . . This curious animal
which is indeed a miniature of the Kangaroo."

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

"The kangaroo-rat is a small inoffensive animal and perfectly
distinct from the ordinary species of rat."

1836. C. Darwin, `Naturalist's Voyage,' c. xix. p. 321:

"The greyhounds pursued a kangaroo-rat into a hollow tree,
out of which we dragged it; it is an animal as large as a
rabbit, but with the figure of a kangaroo."

1850. J. B. Clutterbuck, `Port Phillip in 1849,' p. 37:

"The kangaroo-rat is twice the size of a large English
water-rat, and of the same colour, measuring nearly two feet
in length."

1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes' (edition 1853), p. 157:

"Two or three of the smallest kind, called the kangaroo-rat--
about the size of a hare, and affording pretty good coursing."

1860. Fison and Howitt, `Kamilaroi and Kurnai,' p. 195:

"One of the skin aprons . . . made from the skin of a
kangaroo-rat."

1879. C. W. Schurmann, `Native Tribes of Australia--Port
Lincoln Tribe,' p. 214:

"The natives use this weapon [the <i>Waddy</i>] principally
for throwing at kangaroo-rats or other small animals."

1890. A. H. S. Lucas, `Handbook of the Aust