28 TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA. 



7. Young male. Australia. Upperparts of a beautiful fine 

 chocolate tinge, end of tail blackish brown; underparts 

 white, the base of the hairs like upperparts; chest-mark 

 inconspicuous, ear-patch white. 



8. Young female. Australia, neighborhood of Melbourne. 

 F. Muller, 1865. Colored like N°, 2; no mark on the 

 chest. 



9. Very young female. Australia , 1873. Upperparts 

 greyish black ; end of tail black ; underparts , ear-patches , 

 hands and feet white. 



10' Adult male Van Diemensland. Type specimen of 

 Temminck's Phalangista vulpina (Mammalogie, I. p. 5). 

 Upperparts brownish grey , base of tail like back , for the 

 rest black ; underparts rusty yellow ; a rusty brown mark on 

 the chest; ear-patch dirty white. 



11. Adult female. Van Diemensland. Voyage of Lewis. 

 Upperparts rusty black, darker towards the hind part of 

 the back ; tail black ; underparts rusty brown. 



12. Adult female. Van Diemensland. Verreaux. Colored 

 like the former; ear-patch brownish black. 



13. Nearly fullgrown female. Van Diemensland? Colored 

 like the former , but less dark. 



14. Younger male. Van Diemensland. Frank Upper- 

 parts and tail brownish black; underparts brownish with 

 a reddish shade; a rusty brown broad mark on the chest. 



15. Very young male. Van Diemensland. Colored like 

 N°. 9; mark on chest hardly visible. 



We possess nine skulls of this species and the skeleton 

 of N°. 2. The latter presents 13 costales, 6 lumbares, 2 

 sacrales and 25 caudales. 



Remark. Mr. Oldfield Thomas of the British Museum 

 fixed the attention of the naturalists to Kerr's Animal 

 Kingdom (Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1879, 

 5th series , Vol. IV, p.p. 396 and 397). Mr. Thomas stated 

 that Phalangista vulpina Shaw is a synonym of Didelphis 

 vulpecula Kerr. 



Notes from the Leyden ]Mviseixm, Vol. "VII. 



