CATALOGUE OF MAMMALS FROM NEW GUINEA. 3 
Order FERZL. 
Tribe Viverrina. . 
Fam. FELID&. 
PARADOXURUS HERMAPHRODITA. 
Viverra nigra, Desm. Mam. 
Viverra hermaphrodita, Pallas. 
Paradoxurus typus, F. Cuv. Mam. Lithog.; Temm. Monog. i. 
315; Gray, List Mam. B.M. 56. 
Platy ychista Pallasii, Otto, Nov. Act. Leop. xvii. t. 71, 72. 
Paradoturus hermaphrodita, Gray, Proce. Zool. Soc, 1858. 
Hab. Ké Islands (Wallace). 
a. Ké Islands. 
Fam. MacroropiIp&. 
_a. Phalangistina. 
Bevipevus ARIEL. 
Belidea Ariel, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1842, x. 11; Ann. & Mag. 
N. H. 1842, 404; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1858. 
Petaurus sciureus, Miller, Verhand. tabl. 
Petaurus Ariel, Gray, List Mam. B.M. 84. 
Hab. Aru Island (Wallace) ; Port Essington (Gould). 
a. Female adult, with one young in the pouch. Aru Island. 
Cuscus. 
Herr Temminck, in the first volume of the ‘Monographies de 
Mammalogie,’ published i in 1827, divides the short hairy- -eared kinds, 
Cusct, into three species. 
At the time he wrote he only had specimens from the northern 
part of Celebes, brought home by Professor Reinhardt, from 
the islands of Banda and Amboyna. 
These species evidently depend principally on the colour of the 
fur, which appears to be very variable in different individuals. It is 
true that he describes and figures skulls of the different individuals ; 
but the difference between those of Phalangista chrysorrhos and P. 
maculata appears chiefly to depend on the age and development of 
the specimen figured. M.'Temminck and the writers of his school 
always forget that the skull and other parts of the skeleton are 
liable to quite as much variation from local circumstances, food, 
and other accidental causes, as the colour of the fur or the size of 
the animal. M. Temminek characterizes them thus :— 
1. In Phalangista ursina the fur is thicker and closer, and the 
long hairs thicker than in the other species, blackish, with yellow 
tips to the longer hairs ; and the forehead of the skullis flat. Of this 
he had several specimens of different ages, all brought by Professor 
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