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brown, pencilled with black and rusty yellow on the back; the 

 sides lighter ; chin, throat, the under side of the fore and hind 

 legs and abdomen grey or ashy white ; fore and hind feet whitish, 

 with a narrow line of brown down the front on the upper side ; 

 ears comparatively large, margins thickened and turned in at the 

 base in front, very much rounded, broad, length 065 inch, breadth 

 0*4 inch, apparently bare, brownish without, whitish within ; tail 

 almost naked, scaly, sparingly clothed with minute spines. The fur 

 is of two kinds at least — on the upper parts covered with stiff, flat, 

 grooved spiny hairs, grey or ashy at the base, black at the tip, 

 and intermixed with a fine fur of a similar tint at the base, but 

 tipped with rusty yellow, the combination giving a dark brown 

 upper surface finely pencilled with black and yellowish ; on the 

 sides the spines are not so numerous as down the centre of the 

 back, and on the limbs apparently absent ; on the head they 

 are reduced to stiffish flat hairs, the fur predominating ; the sides 

 of the head of a lighter brown, and tinged with yellowish about 

 the base of the ears below ; on the belly and under surface, the 

 spines are weaker, altogether whitish, and mixed with more fur 

 of an ashy tint ; whiskers from the upper lip only, long, black, 

 or with a few of a whitish color. 



Hob. Duke of York Island. 



The young do not differ in coloration from the adults ; sexes 

 alike in color. I have no opportunity at present of examining 

 and comparing the skull of this species, and shall consequently 

 postpone the description of it for another paper. 



MUS MUSAVORA, SP. N. 



The " Banana Eat." 



The general color of this species is light rufous or faint tawny 

 above, the tips of some of the longer hairs being blackish on the 

 back, but not conspicuously so ; the concealed portion of the fur 

 is dark-bluish slate color ; the rufous tint is more clear on the 

 sides, shoulders, fore arms and hind legs, all the under surface 

 uniform white with a faint tinge of rufous towards the sides ; 



