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south as Bowen, Port Denison, and to the Norman River and 

 Gulf of Carpentaria. Four species of this genus are known to 

 inhabit Australia. 



Order MARSUPIALIA. 

 Family MACROPODTD^E. 



6. — Macropus (Heteropus) assimilis, Ramsay. 



Petrogalea assimilis, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N. 8. Wales, 



Vol. L, pt. IV, p. 360. 



The Allied Brush-tailed Kangaroo. 



Two specimens only of this new species were obtained, an 

 adult and young. The fur of the younger animal is of a beau- 

 tiful silky texture, long and very soft ; the basal portion is of 

 a dark brown, the tips of the hairs silvery grey, rufous on the 

 sides of the base of the tail. 



The locality is the Palm Islands, off Cleveland Bay. 



Family PHALANGISTIM]. 



7. — Cuscus maculatus, Less. 



Cuscus maculatus ochropus, var. P.Z S., 1866, p. 220. 



Several specimens from Cape York. 



It is not improbable that the females of this species have been 

 mistaken for that described by Temminck as C. chrysorrhous. 



I believe the males are always whitish, spotted or irregularly 

 blotched, with some shade of brown, the tail always more rough 

 or tuberculate underneath. The female is of a more uniform 

 dark brown, the tips of the hairs ashy grey or silvery, and the 

 rump and tail yellowish ; a whitish stripe from the throat, widen- 

 ing between the arms, narrower just below them, and becoming 

 very much wider over the belly, where it is separated from the 

 grey of the back by a narrow stripe of black on either side oppo- 

 site the pouch, from the pouch downwards, and the tail whitish 

 or yellowish white. The feet are in all I have examined more or 

 less rufous or reddish yellow. On this Dr. G. R. Gray founded 

 his variety C. ochropus. 



