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6. PHASCOLOGALE SWAINSONI, Waterhouse (1840). 
Swainson’s Pouched Mouse. 
Size medium. Fur very long, soft, and thick. General color 
above deep rufous- or umber-brown, below dull brownish-gray. 
Muzzle long. Ears short and broad, covered with short dark 
brown hairs. Hands and feet dark brown. Soles with five pads, 
the hallucal not, or scarcely divided. Fore claws very long and 
strong. Tail moderate, short-haired, uniformly dark brown. 
Mamme probably ten. 
Dimensions.—Head and body about five inches; tail about 
four inches. 
Habitat.—Tasmania ; South-east Victoria, 
References.—Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 285, pls. xxiv. fig. 7 (wpper 
view of skull), xxv. fig. 4 (teeth); Gould, Mamm. Austr. i. pl. xxxiv. 
7. PHASCOLOGALE APICALIS, Gray, (1842). 
Freckled Pouched Mouse. 
Size medium. Fur coarse. General color above freckled 
reddish-gray; below dull white or yellowish. A whitish ring 
round the eye. Ears short and rounded, clothed inside and out- 
side with short gray hairs. Front and outside of fore-arm rufous; 
rest of outsides of limbs dull gray. Hands and feet gray. Soles 
granulated ; hallucal pad rarely subdivided. Tail short, hairy, 
colored above like the back, below gray or yellowish-gray ; the 
extreme tip black. Mamme eight. 
Dimensions.—Head and body about five inches; tail about 
three and a half inches. 
Habitat.—West and probably North Australia. 
References.—Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 277, pls. xxiv. fig. 5 (upper 
view of skull), xxv. fig. 1 (teeth); Gould, Mamm. Austr. i. pl. xxxix, 
8. PHASCOLOGALE CRISTICAUDATA, Krefft, sp. (1866). 
Krefft’s Pouched Mouse. 
Size medium. Fur close and soft. General color above sandy- 
brown, below paler. Ears short, rounded, and very broad. Tail 
short, a prominent crest of black hairs, becoming longer towards 
the tip, on the upper side of its terminal half. Mamme ? 
Dimensions.—Head and body about five inches; tail about 
three and a half inches. 
Habitat.—South Australia. 
Type.—In the Australian Museum, Sydney. 
References.—Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 276; Krefft, P.Z.S, 1866, 
p. 435, pl. xxxvi, 
