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LXXII, pg. 2. (
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Description read at the 
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meeting of the LSNSW.
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FF8E152AFF7EF8A998268D67" bold="true" box="[151,328,1837,1863]" pageId="20" pageNumber="221">Current name.</emphasis>
Musky Rat-kangaroo 
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FF8E152AFF2EF8D598CE8D4B" bold="true" box="[199,416,1873,1899]" pageId="20" pageNumber="221">Taxonomic status.</emphasis>
Regarded as a valid species since its original description. 
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created a new genus 
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FF8E152AFF2EF81D98578D93" bold="true" box="[199,313,1945,1971]" pageId="20" pageNumber="221">Material:</emphasis>
Possible 
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. M.458, adult male, skin mount and skull 
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locality
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FF8F152BFF2EFF1298218A90" bold="true" box="[199,335,150,176]" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">Comments.</emphasis>
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This specimen would surely be a 
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if it entered the MAMU Collection prior to publication of the species description in 
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have not established the collector nor when it was obtained by Macleay. Only 
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, which is assumed to be M.458
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Several collectors sent natural history specimens to Macleay from the Rockingham Bay region. 
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noted that Spalding had not obtained any specimens of the species “during a recent visit to the Endeavour River”, presumably a reference to Spalding’s collecting trip throughout the second half of 1874. Spalding returned to Sydney from the Endeavour River in 
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. Surviving documentation of Macleay’s Collection acquisitions of the 1870s and 1880s are incomplete. Macleay’s private diary entries indicate that “Dubouley” [sic] collected at Rockingham Bay between 1874 and 
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but we have not found specific mention of this species in material received by Macleay. Macleay’s private diary entry for 
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mentions that Dubouley visited with his Endeavour River collection and an entry for 
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states that natural history material, including a flying fox 
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<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FF8F152BFF04FDC3989A8840" box="[237,500,582,608]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">Pteropus conspicillatus</emphasis>
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, was forwarded to him from a Mr. Debouley from “Rockingham Bay”. Mr. Dubouley presumably refers to the Australian entomologist and natural history artist Francis H. du Boulay (1837–1914) who collected in north 
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in the 1870s (
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). 
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stated that most of his specimens were obtained from Broadbent, who might also have sold M.458 to Macleay in 1874 or 1875. Froggatt collected for Macleay in the Cairns region during 1886, but we have not found evidence that he collected in the Rockingham Bay area. Perhaps J.A. Boyd, based at Ripple Creek, Ingham included this species amongst several shipments of mammals he sent to Macleay during the 1880s. However, localities usually given for his specimens in Macleay’s publications and the MAMU 1890s Catalogue are either Ripple Creek or Herbert River. We suspect that Rockingham Bay is more likely to be a general locality applied by collectors during the 1870s, before settlement had expanded.
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Several vernacular names were applied to this species during the late 19th and early 20th century which complicates a search for references to it in historical documents. Although now referred to as a “rat-kangaroo”, Ramsay initially referred to this highly unusual looking little animal as a “musk rat” (
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; 
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) and as a “marsupial rat” in his entry in the AM “A Register” of 
<date id="48381021FF8F152BFCA8FB9E9AAE8E15" box="[833,960,1050,1077]" pageId="21" pageNumber="222" value="1875-04">April 1875</date>
. 
<bibRefCitation id="58174B10FF8F152BFC25FB9F9D9E8E14" author="Lucas, A. H. S. &amp; Le Souef, W. H. D." box="[972,1264,1050,1077]" pageId="21" pageNumber="222" refId="ref37436" refString="Lucas, A. H. S. &amp; Le Souef, W. H. D. (1909) The Animals of Australia. Mammals, Reptiles and Amphibians. Whitcombe &amp; Tombs, Melbourne, xi + 327 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 69495" type="book" year="1909">Lucas &amp; Le Souef (1909)</bibRefCitation>
used the name Australian Musk Rat. Several other small macropodoid species were also referred to as “kangaroo rats” during the 19th century. It is possible that archival documents including Macleay’s correspondence and personal diary could have used any of these terms for the Musky Rat-kangaroo. It is even possible that Macleay simply referred to it as a “rat”, given that his diary and correspondence can be expected to reflect his personal interests, of which mammals were not necessarily a high priority.
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In his original description, Ramsay did not state the number of specimens used in his description but it appears to be at least five. It is clear that there were very few specimens in 19th century collections. 
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stated that he had obtained 
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in 1874 but only two since then (collected after 1876), despite efforts by several collectors, and he regarded it to be rarely collected. Although Ramsay obtained 
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, the 
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series could include additional specimens held in other collections. Four 
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are accounted for and all are adult. Two are in the AM, and a further 
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were sent from the AM to the British Museum (now Natural History Museum, London) around 1876. 
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Parnaby 
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(2017)
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suggested that a fifth unlocated 
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might be the halfgrown animal shot by Broadbent and mentioned by 
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, but this assumes that Ramsay had obtained that specimen. In conclusion, either M.458 is the fifth 
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obtained by Ramsay, which found its way into Macleay’s Collection, or Macleay purchased the specimen from an unknown collector (perhaps Broadbent), and the collection date is unknown.
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Prior to 
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Parnaby 
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(2017)
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, the publication date of this species has been taken as Ramsay’s description in the 
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(
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), which according to 
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, was published in 
<date id="48381021FF8F152BFB18F9269CF68C9C" box="[1265,1432,1698,1724]" pageId="21" pageNumber="222" value="1876-02">February 1876</date>
. However, 
<bibRefCitation id="58174B10FF8F152BFEE7F94398A78CC1" author="Ramsay, E. P." box="[270,457,1734,1761]" pageId="21" pageNumber="222" pagination="2" refId="ref39189" refString="Ramsay, E. P. (1875 a) A description of an undescribed species of rat kangaroo, allied to the genera Hypsiprymnus and Betongia [sic]. The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 October, pg. 2." type="journal article" year="1875">Ramsay (1875a)</bibRefCitation>
published essentially the same description in a Sydney daily newspaper, the 
<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FF8F152BFAA4F942983E8D24" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">Sydney Morning Herald</emphasis>
, on 
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, four days after presenting his paper at the meeting of the LSNSW. Ramsay also published descriptions of several new bird species in the 
<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FF8F152BFCA6F88A9D308D08" box="[847,1118,1806,1832]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">Sydney Morning Herald</emphasis>
in 
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(
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). Perhaps Ramsay had anticipated extensive delays in publication of the 
<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FF8F152BFB64F8B69C768D6C" box="[1165,1304,1842,1868]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">Proceedings</emphasis>
throughout 1875. Macleay, who was the primary instigator and financier for publication of the 
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, was on the 
<emphasis id="0EF2EAF3FF8F152BFAADF8D29CF38D50" box="[1348,1437,1878,1904]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="222">Chevert</emphasis>
Expedition from May to late October, 1875.
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