142 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 
white or white and brown; limbs brown, with the fingers 
nearly naked. Muzzle very long and slender, with the top and 
sides of the nose naked. Ears longer and narrower than in 
other members of the group, not quite reaching the eyes when 
turned forwards, and with rounded tips. Soles of hind feet 
naked and coarsely granulated, with indistinct rudimental 
pads at the bases of the fourth and fifth toes. Tail long, 
cylindrical, and uniformly clothed with short fine black hairs. 
Eight teats. 
Distribution—New Guinea. 
VI. BROADBENT’S BANDICOOT. PERAMELES BROADBENTI. 
Perameles broadbentt, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. South. 
Wales, vol. iii., p. 402 (1878) ; Thomas, Cat. Marsup. 
Brit. Mus., p. 240 (1888). 
Founded upon a very large adult male specimen which 
is only provisionally admitted by the author of the British 
Museum Catalogue of Marsupials as specifically distinct from 
the preceding ; its chief claim to distinction being based on 
the peculiar character of the tail, which is stated to differ from 
that of all other members of the family in being partially pre- 
nensile. This appendage is long, scaly above, and covered 
below with flattish transverse scaly tubercles ; its colour being 
blackish for about two-thirds of its length, and thence fawn- 
coloured to the tip, with a sparse clothing of short hair. The 
great size of the type specimen may be merely due to sex and 
age. 
Distribution South-eastern New Guinea. 
VII. DORIA’S BANDICOOT. PERAMELES DOREYANA. 
Perameles doreyana, Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage Astrolabe, 
Zool., vol. i., p. 100 (1830) ; Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. 
Mus., p. 236 (1888). 
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