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5, PERAMELES AURATA, Ramsay (1887). 
Golden Bandicoot. 
Size small; form rather stout. Fur coarse and spiny. General 
color above rich golden brown pencilled with black ; below white. 
Kars short and broad. 
Dimensions.—Head and body about eight and a half inches. 
Habitat.—North-western Australia. 
7T'ype.—In the Macleay Museum, Sydney University. 
Reference.—Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S. Wales (2) ii. p. 551 (1887). 
6. PERAMELES OBESULA, Shaw, sp. (1793). 
Short-nosed Bandicoot. 
Size medium ; form stout. In all other respects externally 
resembling the P. macrura, except that the tail is shorter, the 
feet rather less heavy, and the general color lighter. 
Dimensions.—Head and body about fourteen inches ; tail about 
five and a half inches. 
Habitat.—Australia south of the tropics ; Tasmania. 
References.—Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 231, pl. xxi. fig. 5 (ear); 
Gould, Mamm. Austr. i. pl. xii. 
Genus IIJ.—PERAGALE, Gray (1841). 
Form light and delicate. Muzzle long and narrow. Ears very 
long. Fore feet with the first and fifth toes rudimentary and 
clawless, and the three middle toes long, with powerful curved 
claws. Hind limbs much longer than the fore. Hallux absent 
externally. Soles hairy. Tail long, conspicuously crested on the 
terminal half above. 
+ 1.2.3.4.5 1 p 1.0.34 1234. « 
Denitition.—I. 555, C. 3, P- rosa M- toaa x 2 = 48. 
Habits.—Terrestrial ; fossorial ; omnivorous. 
1. PERAGALE LEUCURA, Zhomas (1887). 
White-tailed Rabbit-Bandicoot, 
Size small ; form slender. Fur long, soft, and silky. General 
color above pale yellowish-fawn ; below white. ars thinly 
clothed with fine silvery hairs. Limbs white. Greater part of 
the soles hairy. Tail moderate, slender, tapering, short-haired 
except on the terminal third above, uniform white. 
Dimensions. —Of adult unknown. 
Habitat.—Unknown ; probably Central or North-Central 
Australia. 
References: —Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 225, pls. ii., xxi. figs. 9 
(palm), 10 (sole). 
