Lesson and Garnot, Voyage de la Coquille. 121 
Cusc. maculatus is the Cuscus macrourus, n.s., ‘* corpore griseo, pilis 
** longioribus nigris, et maculis sparsis brunneis. Capite fulvo, gula 
** auriculisque albis. Cauda robusté, longiore, cinerea. Abdomine 
** albido. Manibus pedibusque nigrescentibus.’’ In fur it resembles 
some of the protean varieties of the preceding species, and approaches 
nearly to the Phalangista Quoy, Quoy and Gaim., which MM. Lesson 
and Garnot are disposed to refer to the Cuscus maculatus. But charac- 
ters fully sufficient to authorise its separation are afforded by its size, two- 
thirds smaller than that of the species just mentioned, its teeth being at 
the same time those of an adult animal ; by the form of its head, which 
has no concavity in its profile; and by the developement of its tail com- 
pared with its other proportions. The length of its body is twelve inches 
and a half; that of its tail seventeen inches, of which scarcely seven 
inches are naked. 
To a second section of the genus Cuscus, ‘ Auriculis distinctis, intis 
** nudis,” is referred a third species described and figured as the Cuseus 
albus, “ pilis in universum subalbis ; vitta dorsali longitudinalique fulva. 
‘* Auribus intis nudis, extra pilosis.” It comprehends the Phalangiste 
alba and rubra, Geoff., being synonymous with the Didelphis orientalis, 
Linn., and the Phal. cavifrons, Temm. 
Under the name of Kangurus Ualabatus, MM. Lesson and Garnot give 
adescription of the Kang. bicolor of the Vélins du Muséum, the Kang. 
Brunii, Desm., remarking that the species indicated by these names is 
not the Didelphis Bruni of Gmelin, with the character of which it by 
no means accords. The latter animal, for which the name of Kangurus 
veterum is provisionally proposed, was a native of the burning climate 
of the Moluccas and of the northern part of New Guinea, while the 
Oualabat, mistaken for it by M. Desmarest, inhabits in great profusion 
the temperate neighbourhood of Sydney in New South Wales. The cha- 
racter of the species is thus given; ‘ pilis supra brunneis, infra fulvis. 
* Cauda longissim4, ore, manibus, pedibus, et caude parte superiore, 
“ aterrimis. Genis griseis ; auricularum pilis inferioribus croceis ;’? and 
the description of it, contained in the Mammalogie of M. Desmarest 
under the name of Kang. Brunii, is praised as correct. An animal obtained 
by the expedition in New Guinea is stated to have been very probably the 
lost Didelphis Brunii, the Pelandoc or Aroe Rabbit, It was called by 
