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Ferameles obesula, Geoffroy, Ann. Muséum, vol. iv., p. 64 
(1804); Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus, p. 231 
(1888). 
Perameles fusciventer, Gray, in Grey’s Australia, Appendix, 
vol. ii., p. 407 (1841). 
Perameles affinis, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 96 (1843). 
(Plate XXIII.) 
Characters.—Size medium ; form stout. In all other respects 
externally similar to Perameles macrura, except that the tail is 
shorter, the feet are rather less heavy, and the colour is lighter. 
Length of head and body about 14 inches; of tail 534 inches. 
Distribution. Australia, south of the tropics, and Tasmania. 
Habits.—It does not appear that anything special has been 
recorded of the habits of this and the allied species whereby 
they can be distinguished from Gunn’s Bandicoot and its 
kindred, with the exception that, as already mentioned, they 
are stated by Gould to inhabit damper and more densely 
wooded situations. 
XII. PORT MORESBY BANDICOOT. PERAMELES MORESBYENSIS. 
Perameles moresbyensis, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. South 
Wales, vol. ii, p. 14 (1878). 
Characters.—General external characters as in P. odesula and 
P. macrura, except that the fur is coarser and more spiny, the 
colour of the crown of the head darker, and the hinder portion 
of the back dark grizzled orange, instead of being uniform with 
the fore-quarters. 
Distribution.—South-eastern New Guinea. 
Although the above-mentioned points of distinction from the 
Australian forms are small they appear, according to Mr. 
Thomas, to be constant, and as the Papuan form inhabits an 
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