Excerpt from Catalogue of Australian Mammals: With Introductory Notes on General Mammalogy Mr. J. Douglas ogilby having been engaged by the Trustees of the Australian Museum to prepare a Catalogue of the Aus tralian Mammals, the work now issued is the result. It 'contains careful descriptions of all known Mammals indigenous to Australia, with notes also on allied fossil forms, compiled from various sources of which the author gives due acknowledgment in his Introduction. Nearly all the species are represented by one or more specimens in the Museum, and those which are not so are indicated by an asterisk placed against their names in the Index. Mr. Ogilby has found it necessary to alter many of the generally recognised names, for reasons which he gives in each case, consequently some of the specimens exhibited in the Museum may not bear the same designation as in the Catalogue. These differences will, however. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.