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Fam. UrsidvE. 



Procyon Psora, n. s. Yellowish brown and gray, grisled ; face, 

 temples, side of neck, chest, belly and sides of body dirty yellow ; 

 forehead, cheeks under the eyes, each side of the throat and back of 

 the ears dark blackish brown ; fur rather long, close, dark brown, 

 longer hairs yellow-white, those of the back, shoulders and head 

 brown tipped ; tail short ? perhaps destroyed ? 



Hab. Sacramenta California, Capt. Belcher, R.N. : called Psora. 



The front upper tubercular grinder square, as long as broad ; the 

 second rather broader than long, slightly narrowed on the inner 

 side ; the last ovate, triangular, transverse ; the teeth much worn ; ca- 

 nines conical, not grooved ; face in the skull short, broad. Length, 

 body and head, 27 inches; tail, 3 ? ; hind foot, 4f. 



Fam. Macropidjs. 



Phascogale leucopus. Fur gray, washed with blackish ; head rather 

 redder ; lips, chin, throat, chest and belly, inside of limbs and feet 

 white ; tail slender, lower half white, upper blackish brown ; ears 

 large. 



Hab. Australia. Brit. Mus. 



This species is very distinct from P. leucogaster, Gray, with which 

 alone it can be confounded, in the feet being white. 



Fam. Talpid^e. 



Crossopus Himalayicus. Slate-coloured black, with scattered 

 black hairs, which are longer and white-tipped on the sides and 

 rump ; lower part of the throat and the middle of the belly rusty 

 brown ; tail elongate, scaly, with adpressed dark brown hairs above 

 and elongate rigid whitish hairs beneath, and brown elongated rigid 

 hairs near the tip ; feet rather naked ; whiskers numerous, elongate, 

 brown ; teeth white. Length of the body and head, b\ inches ; tail, 3 ; 

 hind feet, J" nearly. 



Cor sir a nigrescens. Blackish lead- colour washed with rufous; 

 chin and beneath pale and rather more rufous ; the whiskers dark ; 

 the feet and tail rather naked, scaly ; the claws white ; the front one 

 elongate, compressed, acute ; ears hid in the fur ; cutting teeth white, 

 brown at the tip. Length of body and head, 3" 6"'; tail, 1" 4'"; 

 hind foot and claws, 6| lines. 



Hab. India. Brit. Mus. 



Fam. Hystricidje. 



Atherura Africana, A. fasciculata, Bennett, Garden and Menag. 

 Zool. Soc. 1. 175. Spines all dull steel-black ; of the back strong, 

 elongate, end compressed, angular; of the head, under parts and 

 limbs flat, channeled ; whiskers black, bristly ; tail elongate, taper- 

 ing, one-third the length of the body, with a tuft of wavy, compressed, 

 elongate white quills ; ears rounded, somewhat naked, black ; eyes 

 convex, black. 



Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone, Whitfield. Brit. Mus. 



There is a living specimen of this species in the magnificent me- 



