166 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY, 
Dasyurus fuscus, Milne-Edwards, Comptes Rendus., vol. xc., 
p. 1518 (1880). 
Characters.—General size, structure, and coloration as in the 
last, from which this species may be distinguished by its rather 
stouter build, shorter muzzle and ears, shorter and more woolly 
fur, and the rufous or fulvous tinge in the general colour of 
the back. 
Distribution.—North-western New Guinea, 
THE POUCHED MICE. GENUS PHASCOLOGALE. 
Phascologale, Temminck, Monogr. Mamm., vol. i., p. 56 (1827). 
Body unspotted ; form slender and graceful ; ears rounded ; 
tail long, bushy, crested, or nearly naked ; feet broad and short ; 
toes subequal, with sharp curved claws ; hind foot with a short, 
clawless, first toe, or hallux ; soles of feet naked and granulated, 
with fine transversely granulated pads, that of the hallux being 
frequently divided into two. Pouch practically wanting ; 
number of teats varying from two to five pairs. Three pairs 
of premolar teeth in each jaw, except in P. eristicauda, where 
the last lower one is wanting. 
Although, as we have had occasion to mention in analogous 
instances, the name of Pouched Mice is far from being free 
from objection, yet since the scientific names of neither this 
nor the following genus lend themselves readily to con- 
version into English, we are compelled to use the colonial 
designation as the vernacular names of the members of both 
genera. 
The pretty little animals belonging to the present genus 
thus designated, range over the whole of Australia and New 
Guinea, together with the adjacent islands, and are completely 
arboreal and inscetivorous in their habits. As is well stated by 
Mr. Thomas, they appear in the Australasian region to occupy 
the place held in India and the adjacent countries by the Tree- 
