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III. LONG-NOSED BANDICOOT. PERAMELES NASUTA. 



Perameles nas2/fa, Geoffr., Ann. Museum, vol. iv., p. 62 

 (1804) ; Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 242 

 (1888). 



Perameles lawsoni^ Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage Uranie, p. 5 7 



(1824). 



{Plate XXII.) 



Characters. — Size and form as '\w the preceding ; fur coarse, 

 rough, and shghtly spinose ; muzzle very long and slender. 

 General colour dull olivaceous brown, without stripes on the 

 rump; under-parts white, as are the inner sides of the limbs 

 and the feet. Ears long, narrow, and pointed. Soles of hind 

 feet granulated, black and thinly haired behind, white and 

 naked in front. Tail of moderate length, brown above, paler 

 beneath. Eight teats. Length of head and body about 16 

 inches ; of tail 5 inches. 



Distribution. — Eastern Australia. 



Mr. Thomas remarks that although in its long ears, and the 

 general structure of its skull and the form of its lower jaw, this 

 species clearly belongs to the same group as the two preced- 

 ing ones, yet in its spiny fur, the absence of stripes on the 

 rump, and the characters of the palate and the so-called bullae 

 m the auditory region of the skull, it approaches so nearly to 

 some of the Papuan species as to forbid the splitting up of the 

 genus. 



There appears to be nothing special recorded in the habits of 

 the species, which differs from the lacts already mentioned 

 under the heading of its allies. 



IV. LONG-TAILED BANDICOOT. PERAMELES LONGICAUDA. 



Perameles longicauda, Peters and Dona, Ann. Mus. Geiiova, 

 vol. viii., p. 335 (1876;. 



