98 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
Distribution. —Central Queensland, in the Herbert river dis- 
tcict, 
Habita.—This, the third species of Phalanger made known to 
science from the Herbert river district, and described by Dr. 
Collett in 1884, is termed by the aborigines “Tula.” Mr. Carl 
Lumholtz states: ‘It is not uncommon in the upper part of 
the mountainous scrubs, where “ it seems to be more commonly 
distributed than P. herbertensis and FP. lemurotdes, though it 
never goes far down the mountains. Besides being like the 
other Phalangers, a night-animal, it is in activity for a great part 
of the day, as I have seen myself. The blacks kill it by climb- 
ing up the tree and throwing sticks at it, which is often very 
troublesome work. The animal is not very shy, but when dis- 
turbed it runs away quickly from tree to tree, so that a black 
man will sometimes have difficulty in killing it, if he does not 
get two or three of his comrades to meet it in different trees.” 
VII. D’ALBERTIS’ PHALANGER. PSEUDOCHIRUS ALBERTISI. 
Phalangista (Pseudochirus) albertist, Peters, Ann. Mus. Genov., 
vol. vi., p. 303 (1874). 
Pseudochirus albertisi, Jentink, Notes Leyden Mus., vol. vi., p. 
109 (1884); Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 179% 
(1888). | 
Characters.—Size rather less than in the last species, with a 
relatively shorter tail ; form stout and clumsy ; fur very long, 
soft, and thick. General colour shining coppery brown ; chin 
greyish ; under-parts pure white in the middle line, greyish 
laterally ; no light markings in the neighbourhood of the eyes 
or on the ears. The short and rounded ears thick and fleshy, 
covered on the back with short, soft, reddish fur; a distinct 
narrow black line down the nape and back. Tail thick, taper 
ing, and woolly to the tip, gradually darkening from root to 
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