"Native Name Bur-roo-gin- / The Natives informed me this Animal (which is very shy and can / conceal itself in the Earth by scratching a Hole with the greatest / readiness & rapidity) tho' rarely seen by us is pretty numerous / in the interior parts of the Country; they added that the flesh / they consider a great delicacy; that the Animal lives a good / deal on Ants being mostly found in the neighborhood of / their Hills, ..., / but that they principally live on the Dew which they lick in / with a red flesh Tongue well fitted to their Extraordinary / small Bill or Mouth - in the Day time we seldom or ever / have seen any of them; the Natives say in the Nights, or / very late in the Evening, or early in the Morning they may / be discovered, (at least their Haunts) by a constant single Whistle / which the Natives well imitate, and by that means surprise / them, before they discover their danger, or they can get off (for / their gait or movements are slow and heavy,) or burrow themselves / in the Earth - The Tongue of this Animal is in Spirits with / that of various Lizards & Goanas & c - Colebee has by com= / paring them to the size of another Animal which weigh'd / from ten to twenty pounds satisfied me that they grow / to that size ====The animal has a long snout from which is tongue is protruding towards an ant-hill. The face and legs are brown, while the upper parts are brown with black and pale-brown spines, tending to be more upright towards the tail. ... Credits: The author if this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.