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Sabine's Collection'

each with gold buttons

Barry Whitwam and Karl Green

18th December 1960

'Hepoona Roo' [Greater glider] Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Sabine's Collection'Zoological study of the Greater glider (Petauroides volans) a possum native to Australia. Plate 61 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'This animal is of the size of a small rabbit Between the fore and hind legs, on each side, is placed a doubling of the skin of the side, which, when the legs are extended laterally, is as it were pulled out, forming a broad lateral

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