12d 



Tlie upper surface and outside of limbs pale sandy, inter- 

 spersed on the head and over the back with numerous fine 

 Idack hairs, longer on the lower part of the back and rump- 

 Kurs naked, dark brown. Sides of muzzle, all tlie under- 

 surface, and the inner surface of the limbs white. Tail 

 clothed with short dark brown hairs at the base, with long 

 black hairs tipped with white on the apical ludf of its 

 length. 



inhab. W. Australia. Called "Kortung" and "Goota- 

 was." 



Smaller tlian Jl. alhipes, liut lias a much longer tail and 

 longer hind legs. 



HaPALOTIS ElCHARDSONIl. 



Plate 28, fig. 2. 



Hajjalotis Kicliardsonii, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, 

 Ma III III., pi. 28, fig. 2, ined. 



H. Mitclielli, Gould, Mamm. Avsfr. iii., pi. 9. 



H. Gouldii, Gould, P.Z.S., 1851, 127. 



Inhal). W. and S. Australia. 



Mr. Gould described an imperfect skin and skeleton, frcjm 

 Port Essington, under the name of Mus hirsutus. 



In the Appendix to Grey's Travels in Australia, p. 403, 

 and in the List of Mammals in the British Museum, 1 

 named these specimens Hiqudotis Gmddii, since that time 

 more perfect specimens have been received from the N. ^^^ 

 coast of Australia, and Mr. (Jould notes them under tht' 

 name of Hcqxdutis hirsutus, P.Z.S., 1851, 127, notices that 

 it is the largest species of the genus, and erroneously retains 

 the name of H. Gouldii for the one I named H. Rirhcrdsnnii. 



