"Native Name Burroo-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, as will be seen in this Drawing which is about 1/5 part of the size of the Animal from which it was taken, 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 was identified as an Echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus, by John Calaby in Wheeler and Smith (1988). The author if this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.