[156] Echidna aculeata, or E. hystrix, the porcupine ant-eater, a curious edentate, spine-covered quadruped, closely allied to the still stranger Ornithorhynchus, the duck-bill.
[157] Phascolomys Vombatus, a curious, broad-backed, and large-headed marsupial, two specimens of which are in the Zoological Gardens. It is a burrower, and in the teeth it resembles the rodent animals; hence its name, from φασκωλον, a pouch, and μὑς, a mouse.
[158] Mitchell's "Popular Guide to the Zoological Gardens," p. 9. (1852.)
[159] Mark Lemon's "Jest Book," p. 180.
[160] Ed. 1845, p. 339.
[161] P. 441. Sir John Richardson told me that the species was Spermophilus Parryi.
[162] The Eventful Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ship Resolute to the Arctic Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin, in 1852-3-4, pp. 314, 315.
[163] "The Life of General Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., G.C.B., F.R.S., D.C.L., from his Notes, Conversations, and Correspondence," by S. W. Fullom. 1863. P. 28.
[164] "History of England, from the Peace of Utrecht," by Lord Mahon, vol. vii. p. 465.
[165] Life of Sydney Smith, by his daughter, Lady Holland, vol. i. 374.