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seriously damage or kill one another, Like their allies, they are 
inveterate enemies to Mice, which they fall upon at once with 
great ferocity, killing more than they can possibly devour, 
When treating of this species, Krefft makes an interesting 
remark relating to a peculiar habit of the family in general, 
“A singular peculiarity,” he writes, “in all the Dasyuride is 
that they carry their ears folded down, never erect, when alive ; 
and, though I do not want to find fault with Gould’s beautiful 
‘work, I must say that, in this respect, the representations he 
gives of this tribe of the animals of Australia, are not over true 
to nature.” We fear that the same remark would apply to the 
plates with which the present work is illustrated, 
II, COMMON POUCHED MOUSE. SMINTHOPSIS MURINA, 
Lhascologale murina, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1837, Dp: 
70; 
Lhascologale albipes, Waterhouse, Op. cit., 1842, p. 48. 
Antechinus Juliginosus, Gould, Mamm. Australia, vol, i, pl. 
xli., 1852, 
Antechinus albipes, Gould, Op. ctt., pl. xlii. 
Antechinus murinus, Gould, of. Cle le xin: 
- Sminthopsis murina, Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., P. 303 
(1888), 
(Plate XXTIX.) 
Characters.—Size small; form very slender and delicate; fur 
soft and fine. General colour finely grizzled Mouse-grey ; 
chin white ; under-parts greyish-white. Ears variable in size, 
their backs uniform slaty flesh-colour, F eet, and sometimes 
also the fore legs, white. Greater portion of soles of hind feet 
naked and finely granulated, without distinct striated pads, 
Tail moderate, slender, not thickened, brown above, and grey 
or white beneath. Eight teats. Length of head and body 
about 334 inches 3 Of tail nearly the same. 
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