I am the more induced to do so as I believe I have now under my care the richest collection of the animals of this country in any Museum; as, besides the specimens which we have been collecting from different quarters, with the kind assistance of Mr. Ronald Gunn, Mr. Harvey, and yourself, we have just purchased a complete series of all the species and varieties brought by Mr. Gould from different parts of this Continent; and these specimens were all marked with the habitat immediately after they were procured.

The first column in the following table indicates the species found in New South Wales, and the east part of the Continent; the number in the column specifying the particular habitats where the species has been observed,

1.  Sydney, and its neighbourhood. 2.  The Rivers Hunter and Maitland, and Goulburn Plains. 3.  Liverpool Plains. 4.  Liverpool Range. 5.  The Namoi and Mokai Rivers. 6.  Bong-Bong. 7.  Yarrundi. 8.  Interior (generally). 9.  Australian Alps. 10.  Murrumbidgee River. 11.  Moreton Bay. 12.  Clarence River. 13.  Port Phillip. 14.  Bathurst. 15.  Interior of Australia Felix. 16.  Murray River. 17.  Bayunga River. 18.  Darling River. 19.  Glenelg River. 20.  Port Stevens Mountains. 21.  Port Macquarie.

The second column refers to South Australia, and the numbers in it to: 

1.  Adelaide and its vicinity. 2.  Kangaroo Island. 3.  The South Coast. 4.  Port Lincoln. 5.  Murray River.

The third column refers to Western Australia, as: 

1.  Perth. 2.  King George’s Sound. 3.  Northam. 4.  Canning River. 5.  Rottnest and Garden Islands.

The fourth column refers to the North-west Coast of Australia: 

1.  Hanover Bay. 2.  Islands in Shark Bay. 3.  Dirk Hatterick’s Bay. 4.  Generally, the peculiar locality not being marked.

The fifth column to the North Coast: 

1.  Port Essington.

The sixth column to the Island of Van Diemen’s Land, the numbers to: 

1.  Hobart Town. 2.  Circular Head. 3.  Bass Strait and King’s Island. 4.  New Norfolk. 5.  Kangaroo Point. 6.  Tasman’s Peninsula. 7.  Launceston. 8.  Acteon Island. 9.  Mount Wellington.

The seventh column to Norfolk Island, marked Number 1.

PRIMATES.  Family Vespertilionidae.

1.  Rhinolophus megaphyllus Gray. 1:10.

2.  Nyctophilus geoffroyii Leach ? 1:1 1:7 3:1 6:1. 
Barbastellus pacificus Gray. 
Nyctinomus ——­ ?  Bennett. 
Var. major 3:1.

Scotophilus.

* Wings and interfemoral membranes with lines of hairs.

3.  Scotophilus morio, new species.

4.  S. gouldii, new species. 1:2 6:7.

5.  S. australis, new species. 1:1 1:4 2:1 3:4 6:1.

** Wings nearly bald.

6.  S. pumilus, new species. 1:7.

7.  Molossus australis 5:1.

8.  Pteropus poliocephalus Temm. 1:11 1:12.  Pt. edwardsii G. Bennett not Desm.