Numbat, noombat or walpurti, Myrmecobius fasciatus. Endangered. Banded myrmecobius. 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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