This English name has beenincorrectly applied in Australia, sometimes to the Bandicoot,sometimes to the Rock-Wallaby, and sometimes to the Wombat. InTasmania, it is the usual bush-name for the last.
1829. `The Picture of Australia,' p. 173:
«The Parameles, to which the colonists sometimes givethe name of badger. . . .»
1831. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 265:
«That delicious animal, the wombat (commonly known at thatplace [Macquarie Harbour] by the name of badger, hencethe little island of that name in the map was so called, fromthe circumstance of numbers of that animal being at first foundupon it).»
1850. James Bennett Clutterbuck, M.D., `Port Phillip in 1849,'p. 37:
«The rock Wallaby, or Badger, also belongs to the family of theKangaroo; its length from the nose to the end of the tail isthree feet; the colour of the fur being grey-brown.»
1875. Rev. J. G. Wood, `Natural History,' vol. i. p. 481:
«The Wombat or Australian Badger as it is popularly called bythe colonists. . . .»
1891. W. Tilley, `Wild West of Tasmania,' p. 8:
«With the exception of wombats or `badgers,' and an occasionalkangaroo . . . the intruder had to rely on the stores he carriedwith him.»
ibid. p. 44:
«Badgers also abound, or did until thinned out by hungryprospectors.»
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