Long-nosed potoroo, Potorous tridactylus tridactylus. Brush-tailed hypsiprymnus, Hypsiprymnus myosurus. Tufted-tailed rat-kangaroo, Hypsiprymnus penicillatus. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by George Robert Waterhouse from his Marsupialia or Pouched Animals, Volume XI of the Naturalist’s Library, W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh, 1841. Waterhouse (1810-1888) was curator at the Zoological Society of London’s museum.

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