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crown of the head, and thus very different from the almost 
naked ears of the sub-genus A/armosa. Crown and nape 
rufous-brown or cinnamon, lighter on sides of neck, where the 
hairs are ringed with white near the tip. <A large whitish 
patch behind the shoulder, a second in front of the same, and 
a third behind the hip. Under-parts dirty yellowish white, 
with the basal grey of the hairs showing through. Outer side 
of limbs and back of fore-feet brown ; inner side and back of 
hind-feet dull white. Soles of latter with five prominent, trans- 
versely striated pads : a long one at base of hallux, three at the 
bases of the other toes, and a rather small postero-external pad. 
Terminal digital pad large, longer than claws, longitudinally 
striated. Tail very thick at base, and tapering rapidly and 
evenly to the tip; its basal third thickly clothed with shining 
fawn-coloured fur like that of the body ; its terminal two-thirds 
almost equally well covered, but the hairs straighter and nearly 
uniform dark brown. Below, the hairs brownish white through- 
out. Naked portion of tail confined to narrow strip about 
half-an-inch in length on the under side of the tip. 
Habitat.—S. Chili and Chiloe Island. 
FOSSIL, FORMs. 
Since the text was written a considerable number of new 
fossil Marsupials have been described, while certain extinct 
Patagonian forms have been definitely assigned to the group. 
Space admits of only a brief reference to some of the most 
important. 
In the Macropodita, De Vis* has described several new 
species of Palorchestes, Sthenurus, and Macropus (Halmaturus) 
from the Pleistocene of Queensland. A new Macropus has 
* Proc. Linn, Soc., N. S. Wales, vol. x., pp. 57=133 (1895). 
