MUS. Ill 



Dimensions. Head and body to seven and a half inches ; tail 

 to six and three-fourths inches. 



Habitat. Northern Tasmania. 



Reference. Higgins & Pettercl, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas. 1882, 

 p. 173, with plate, figs. 2, 2. 



20. Mus LEUCOPUS, H. & P. (1882). 

 Short-tailed Rat. 



Ears long ; tail very much shorter than head and body ; fur 

 long and soft. General color above dark brown tipped with pale 

 fulvous-brown, below dirty ashy-gray ; snout gray, the extreme 

 tip nearly white ; ears clothed with almost black hairs ; tail 

 above with short dark hairs mixed with paler, below with white 

 hairs ; feet white. 



Dimensions. Head and body to five and three-fourths inches ; 

 tail to three and three-fourths inches. 



Habitat. Northern Tasmania. 



Reference. Higgins & Pettercl, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas. 1882, 

 p. 174, with plate, figs. 4, 4a. 



Note. Should this prove to be a good species the name will 

 require to be altered. 



21. Mus VARIABILIS, //. & P. (1882). 

 Swan's Rat. 



Ears rather large, broad, very much rounded above, and almost 

 naked ; tail equal in length to the head and body ; fur rather 

 long and soft. General color above dark bluish-gray or fawn, 

 below pale bluish-gray or white ; feet brownish, fawn color, or 

 white ; tail dark brown. 



Dimensions. Head and body to eight inches ; tail to the same 

 length. 



Habitat. Tasmania (St. Leonards). 



Reference. Higgins & Petterd, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas. 1882, 

 p. 174, with plate, tigs. 3, 3. 



22. Mus SIMSONI, H. & P. (1882). 

 Simson's Rat. 



Ear moderately long ; tail longer than the head and body, 

 thickened at the base. General color above grayish-brown inter- 

 spersed with darker hairs, paler below ; face bluish-gray ; chin 

 white ; ears brown ; feet yellowish-white ; tail pale brown. 



