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when laid forward, reach to the posterior border of the eye. 
They are covered externally and internally with short, stiff 
hair. The eye is surrounded by a light ring of hair. The 
hairs on the fold of the pouch and the pouch-area—where they 
are scanty—are white. Hands and feet white, or light grey 
above ; palms with six granulated elevations, each with a small 
unstriated pad. ‘There is a small tuft of white, whisker-like 
hairs on the posterior side of the fore-arm just above the 
wrist. Soles of feet with three granulated elevations at the 
base of the toes, each with a small unstriated pad. The 
soles are hairy in the heel region, and have a series of thick- 
set strong hairs running along the outer and inner margins and 
bending over on to the under surface, only the medium part 
of which, so far back as the heel, is really naked. The 
medium part is strongly granulated. Pouch opening vertically 
downwards, with moderately developed lateral folds. Mam- 
mz eight (may be reduced to six, or, rarely, four).” 
Distribution.—South and Central Australia. 
XIII. LESSER BRUSH-TAILED POUCHED MOUSE. PHASCOLOGALE 
CALURA. 
Phascologale calura (supra, p. 176); Spencer, Rep. Horn 
Expedition—Zool., p. 30 (1836). 
Distribution— Recorded by Spencer from Central Australia. 
XIV. MACDONELL’S POUCHED MOUSE. PHASCOLOGALE 
MACDONELLENSIS. 
Phascolegale macdonellensis, Spencer, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 
ser. 2, vol. vii., p. 222 (1895); Rep. Horn Expedition— 
Zool., p. 27, pl. ii, fig. 1, pl. iv., figs. g—12 (1896). 
Characters——Size medium; fur moderately coarse; general 
colour of back dull greyish brown, with a chestnut patch 
behind the ear; under surface grey; a light line above and 
