Zoohgy.'] 



NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. 



[^Mammalia. 



rusty chestnut ; the hairs blackish at base, lighter, and browner or yellowish towards 

 apex; ears dark-brown, black within. Yoimg : blackish, darker brown (black when 

 wet) than the adult above, yellowish about the muzzle, cheeks, and throat, rich rusty 

 chocolate below, the under-fur of the same dull, rusty coffee-color in all parts. 



Female: Length of adult (a), about bl feet. Color: yellowish ashy-grey above 

 and on the sides, brownish on the snout, upper lip lighter ; all below dark rich 

 chestnut-brown from the base of pectoral to the tail ; the anterior part of the breast 

 and throat of the same light-grey as the upper surface ; upper and lower surface of 

 fins rich chestnut-brown, darkest below ; hairs with a longer yellowish or greyish 

 apical portion giving the iron-grey general tint with yellowish hue in some lig'hts, 

 the base of each hair being dark, as in the male, and with the same scant, rusty, 

 coffee-color under-fur. Young : blackish-brown above, yellowish-white on throat, 

 belly, and behind pectoral. 



Skull of male [specimen in table of measurements marked (c)] : — length from tip 

 of snout to posterior edge of condyle, 10 inches ; greatest width across zygomatic 

 arches, 5 inches 6 lines ; greatest height from basioccipital to slightly marked occipital 

 crest, 3 inches 6 lines ; crest scarcely marked ; parietal sides of the skull moderately 

 convex ; from tip of snout to anterior edge of orbit, 3 inches ; breadth from tip to 

 tip of postorbital processes, 2 inches 2 lines ; space between the orbits convex above, 

 1 inch 3 lines wide at narrowest posterior portion ; length of lower jaw to middle of 

 condyle, Cinches 10 lines; greatest depth vertically under second molar, 1 inch 5 lines; 

 depth behind fourth molar, 1 inch 1 line. Teeth : length of molar series of 6 teeth in 

 upper jaw, 2 inches 4 lines; anterior molar with a middle cusp, conical, compressed, 

 5 lines long ; with a distinct cusj) at the base in front, and one slightly smaller 

 behind ; a rough, distinct, crenulated cingulum at base of crown connecting the cusps 



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