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BANDICOOTS.
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are numerous everywhere (in Van Diemen’s Land),
they burrow in the ground universally, as far as I
have seen, and live principally on roots. I knew
one gentleman’s entire collection of Cape bulbs,
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GUNN’sS BANDICOOT.
principally Bambianee, eaten by them, and I suffered considerably myself, having lost some entire species of bulbs through these animals.”[1] On this, Mr. Waterhouse inquires, “May not these animals destroy the bulbs to get at insects with which they are infested ?”
- ↑ Annals of N. H. vol. ii.
