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summed up by Ogilby are merely difiPerences in color aud 

 have here no specific value (vide infra N^. 1). 



For the rest I refer to what I said in my paper (Notes 

 from the Leyden Museum, 1884. p. 108). 



Our specimens present the following variations in color: 



1. Adult female. Australia. Above greyish black tinged 

 with coffee-brown , end of tail black ; underparts white, 

 each hair greyish brown at its base; ear-patch coffee-brown. 

 This specimen was labeled Phalangista canina Ogilby and 

 indeed its ears are conspicuous short; a nearer inspection 

 however shows that the ears are injured. The skull and 

 teeth present no differences with the same parts in the 

 other specimens. 



2. Adult male. Australia, neighborhood of Melbourne. 

 Zoological garden at Rotterdam, February 1881. Above 

 greyish black , end of tail black ; underparts and ear -patch 

 reddish yellow ; a rusty brown mark on the chest. 



3. Adult female. Australia, Swan-river. Verreaux. La- 

 beled Phalangista xanthopus Ogilby. Colored like the for- 

 mer , but underparts white like N°. 1 , ear-patch very in- 

 conspicuous , apex of tail pure white. 



4. Adult male. Australia. Frank, 1844. Labeled Pha- 

 langista felina Wagner. Upperparts rusty red; hindparts of 

 back with blackish , end of tail black ; underparts yellowish 

 white, each hair rusty at its base; on the chest an elon- 

 gate rusty brown mark; ear-patch very inconspicuous. 

 Skull and dentition entirely like the other skulls. 



5. Adult female. Australia , Swan-river. Verreaux. Colored 

 like N°. 1 , but less dark. Ear-patch white and a rusty brown 

 stripe on the chest. 



25. FuUgrown male. Australia. Colonial Museum , Haar- 

 lem, 1875. Upperparts greyish rusty; end of tail rusty 

 black ; underparts orange brown ; a rusty brown stripe on 

 the chest ; ear-patch yellow brown ; feet yellow brown. 



6. Nearly fullgrown male. West-Australia. Labeled Pha- 

 langista felina Wagner. Colored like N°. 4; end of tail 

 dark reddish black, ear-patch white. 



Notes from the Leyden IVIuseuixi, "Vol. VII. 



