30 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



SMINTHOPSIS MURINA ALBIPES (Waterhouse) 



Phascogale albipes Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1842, p. 48, 1842. 



("Port Adelaide," South Australia.) 

 Fia.: Gould, 1852, vol. 1, pi. 42. 



Upper parts brownish (the hairs being annulated with yellow 

 near the tip and with black at the tip) ; hairs of under parts deep 

 gray, tipped with white; feet white; tail dark, with very minute 

 hairs. Head and body, 95 mm.; tail, 80 mm. (Waterhouse, 1842, 

 p. 48.) 



This subspecies occurs in South Australia and Victoria. 



Gould gives it too wide a range in stating (1863, vol. 1, p. 49) 

 that it "appears to be almost universally distributed over the whole 

 of the southern coast of Australia, from Swan River to New South 

 Wales." 



"These little animals . . . are caught in large numbers by the 

 aborigines of the Murray" (Krefft, 1871, p. [41]). 



"Although in books this little animal passes uniformly under the 

 name of 'Common' Pouched Mouse, it is by no means a common 

 species. In South Australia it is not nearly so frequently met with 

 as is S. crassicaudata. ... It is an animal which is very rarely 

 seen except when it has fallen victim to a cat, and but little is 

 known of its life history." (Jones, 1923, p. 118.) 



C. W. Brazenor (in litt., March 3, 1937) knows of no locality 

 in Victoria in which this animal can be found at the present time. 



SMINTHOPSIS MURINA FULIGINOSA (Gould) 



Antechinus juliginosus Gould, Mamm. Australia, vol. 1, pi. 41, 1852. ("At 

 King George's Sound and in the vicinity of Perth," Western Australia. 

 Thomas (1888, p. 305) lists the type specimen from "R. Avon, W. A.," 

 which is in the general vicinity of Perth. Thus Iredale and Troughton 

 (1934, p. 10) are evidently in error in giving, as the restricted type locality, 

 "King George's Sound.") 



FIG.: Gould, 1852, pi. 41. 



Upper parts dark grayish brown, interspersed with longer black 

 hairs; face lighter; a mark around the eyes black; chest sooty gray, 

 with a narrow median line of buffy gray; rest of under parts pale 

 grayish white; feet buffy white; tail dark reddish brown, grayish 

 beneath. Head and body, 83 mm.; tail 83 mm. (Gould, 1863, vol. 1, 

 p. 48.) 



The range is "South-Western Australia, more or less coastal, but 

 inland to Katanning, Broomehill, Gnowangerup, and Bulong, near 

 Kalgoorlie" (Glauert, 1933, p. 20) . 



Gould (1863, vol. 1, p. 48) considered it "very abundant, both 

 at King George's Sound and in the vicinity of Perth." 



