Broad-faced Potoroo
Extinct circa 1875 CE • Australia
"John Gilbert also collected another Potoroo from [King George's Sound] . . . The Broad-faced Potoroo was already scarce at that time . . . The natives of Margaret River described it as a slow-moving creature, easily caught, and blamed its disappearance on cats and on bush-fires started by the colonists . . . [T]he last known specimen was taken in 1908."
David Day, The Encyclopedia of Vanished Species (Hong Kong: Mclaren Pub., 1989), 229.
Image: John Gould, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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