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6. PHASCOLOGALE SWAINSONI, Waterhouse (1840). 



Swainson's Pouclied Mouse. 



Size medium. Fur very long, soft, and thick. General color 

 above deep rufous- or umber-brown, below dull brownish-gray. 

 Muzzle long. Ears short and broad, covered with short dark 

 brown hairs. Hands and feet dark brown. Soles with five pads, 

 the hallux not, or scarcely divided. Fore claws very long and 

 strong. Tail moderate, short-haired, uniformly dark brown. 

 Mammaa probably ten. 



Dimensions. Head and body about five inches ; tail about 

 four inches. 



Habitat. Tasmania ; South-east Victoria. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 285, pis. xxiv. fig. 7 (upper 

 view of skull), xxv. fig. 4 (teeth); Gould, Marnm. Austr. i. pi. xxxiv. 



7. PHASCOLOGALE APICALIS, Gray (1842. 

 Freckled Pouclied Mouse. 



Size medium. Fur coarse. General color above freckled 

 reddish-gray, below dull white or yellowish. A whitish ring 

 round the eye. Ears short and rounded, clothed inside and out- 

 side with short gray hairs. Front and outside of fore-arm rufous ; 

 rest of outsides of limbs dull gray. Hands and feet gray. Soles 

 granulated ; hallucal pad rarely subdivided. Tail short, hairy, 

 colored above like the back, below gray or yellowish-gray ; the 

 extreme tip black. Mammae eight. 



Dimensions. Head and body about five inches ; tail about 

 three and a half inches. 



Habitat. West and probably North Australia. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 277, pis. xxiv. fig. 5 (upper 

 view of skull), xxv. fig. 1 (teeth); Gould, Mamm. Austr. i. pi. xxxix. 



8. PHASCOLOGALE CRISTICAUDATA, Krefft, sp. (1866). 



Krefft's Pouclied Mouse. 



Size medium. Fur close and soft. General color above sandy- 

 brown, below paler. Ears short, rounded, and very broad. Tail 

 short, a prominent crest of black hairs, becoming longer towards 

 the tip, on the upper side of its terminal half. Mammse ? 



Dimensions. Head and body about five inches ; tail about 

 three and a half inches. 



Habitat. South Australia. 



Type, In the Australian Museum, Sydney. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 276 ; Krefft, P.Z.S. 1866, 

 p. 435, pi. xxxvi. 



