26 INTRODUCTION. 



14. Perameles Bougainvillei, Quay et Gaim. 



Perameles Bougainvillei, Quoy et Gaim. Zool. dii Voy. de 

 rUranie, p. 56. tab. 5,et Bull, des Sci. Nat. 182 1, torn. i. 

 p. 270 ; Waterh. Nat. Hist, of Mamm. vol. i. p. 385. 

 Habitat. Peron's Peninsula ; in Shark Bay, Western Aus- 

 tralia. 



Having never seen a specimen of this animal, I am unable 

 to figure it, or to say if it be a good species. 



Genus PiiASCOLAUCTOS, De Blainv. 



15. Phascolarctos cinereus .... Vol. I. Pis. 13 & 14. 

 Habitat. New South Wales. 



Genus Phalanoista, Cuv. 



16. Phalangista fuliginosa, Oyilby .... Vol. I. PI. 15. 

 Habitat. Van Diemen's Land. Victoria ? 



In one of the letters from my son Charles, now engaged in 

 a geological survey of Tasmania, the following passage having 

 reference to this animal occurs : — 



" I lay down, looking up at the moon and stars, thinking of 

 home, and dreamily listening to the crackling of the fire, when 

 a diabolical, chattering, grunting laugh overhead makes me 

 start up, and discover that a Sooty Opossum is making an 

 inspection of me, with comments, from the branch above ; his 

 call is responded to by others, and a kind of concert com- 

 mences, which is maintained at intervals throughout the 

 night, — the smaller or Jiing-tailed Opossums peiforniing an 

 active part in it also, and the ' More Pork ' {Vodari/us Cuvieri) 

 loiding a little lugubrious assistance occasionally." 



17. Phalangista vulpina, De5m Vol. I. PI. 16. 



Phalanyista we/flWi<ra,AVagn.,Waterh. Nat. Hist, of Mamm. 



vol. i. p. 288. 



felina, Wagn., Waterh. ib. p. 294. 



Goo-rnal, aborigines of Western Australia. 

 Habitat. Probably every part of Australia ; certainly all its 

 southern portions. 



