Eastern Barred Bandicoot Size:26 x 40 cm (A3) the HMS Beagle embarked on

the HMS Beagle embarked on a third voyage to survey the coasts of Australia (1837-1841)

Flinders and Baudin in their circumnavigations of Terra Australis

A beautiful early map of Tasmania

including New Holland (Australia) and New Zealand

An extraordinary

Eastern Barred Bandicoot Size:26 x 40 cm (A3) the HMS Beagle embarked onCreator Gould's Mammals of Australia (1845 1863) Date 1863 The Eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii) is a nocturnal, rabbit sized marsupial endemic to southeastern Australia, being native to the island of Tasmania and mainland Victoria. Heavily predated by foxes and cats, and impacted by habitat loss from land clearing, the Victorian subspecies is critically endangered. Its survival in Victoria now depends upon the success of captive breeding