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References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 292, pis. xxiv. fig. 8 (upper 

 view of skull), xxv. fig. 3 (teeth) Gould, Mamm. Austr. i. pis. 

 xliv. (P. maculata), xlv. (A minutissima). 



4. PHASCOLOGALE FLAVIPES, Waterhouse (1837). 



Yellow-footed Pouched Mouse. 



Size small or medium ; form stout. Fur close and rather crisp. 

 General color above gray suffused with yellow or rufous ; below 

 yellow or rufous. Ears rather large, naked above, their bases 

 tufted externally with yellow or gray. Limbs and feet more or 

 less like the belly. Soles naked, with six pads, the hallucal 

 usually divided. Claws small and delicate. Tail short-haired, 

 brown or yellow above, paler below, the terminal inch sometimes 

 black. Mammae eight. 



Dimensions. Head and body about five inches ; tail about 

 three and a half inches. 



Habitat. From New Guinea throughout Eastern Australia to 

 South Australia. 



Refere nces. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 289, pi. xxv. fig. 5 (teeth) 

 Gould, Mamm. Austr. i. pis. xl. (P.flavipes), xxxvii. (P. unicolor). 



4a. P. FLAVIPES var. LEUCOGASTER, Gray (1841). 



White-bellied Pouched Mouse. 



Differs from the typical form only in the underside and limbs 

 being white. 



Habitat. Northern and Western Australia. 



References. Thomas, B. M. Catal. p. 291 ; Gould, Mamm. 

 Austr. i. pi. xxxviii. 



5. PHASCOLOGALE MINIMA, Geoffroy, sp. (1804). 



Little Pouched Mouse. 



Size medium ; form murine. Fur thick and close, but rather 

 harsh. General color above gray, suffused with yellow or rufous, 

 more strongly posteriorly ; below, chin white, chest and belly 

 dirty yellowish-gray. Ears short, nearly naked, generally tufted 

 at the base. A yellow patch on the front and outside of the hips. 

 Hands and feet gray, yellow, or brown. Soles naked, with five 

 pads, but the hallucal sometimes divided. Claws very long and 

 strong. Tail short, closely short-haired, brown above, paler 

 below. Mammae ? 



Dimensions. Head and body about five and a half inches ; 

 tail about three and a half inches. 



Habitat. Tasmania and the adjoining Islands. 

 References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 287. 



