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These are the Mullingong better known as the Ornithoryncus and the Echidna, or Ant-eating Hedgehog. Both are natives of what may be termed the new world of Australasia. To give an account of the peculiar conformation or appearance of the mullingong would require many pages, and only the artist can convey any idea of what the creature is like.
Ferrars; 'it will conduce to the harmony of the next room. Willie, already initiated, hoped to puzzle papa as a platypus ornithoryncus, but was driven to allow that it was a nondescript animal, neither fish, flesh, nor good red-herring, useless, and very fond of grubbing in the mud; and if it were not at Botany Bay, it ought to be!
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