Extinct Australian species n from "A GAP IN NATURE - Discovering the World's Extinct Animals" by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten, Text Publishing, Melbourne 2001.

Thanks to the authors and publisher for permission to include these pictures and text.

White Gallinule (Porphyrio albus)

Norfolk Island Kaka (Nestor productus)

Pig-footed Bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus)

Long-tailed Hopping-mouse (Notomys longicaudatus)

Paradise parrot (Psephotus pulcherrimus)

Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus)

Lesser Bilby (Macrotis leucura)

Eastern Hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes leporides)