188 THE DASYURES. 



— with the hair 9 inches ; from nose to ear, 1 inch 

 6^ lines; ear, 10 lines, width at the base about 11 

 lines; length of tarsus, (without the claws) 1 inch 

 5 lines. 



Through the kindness of Prof. Owen, who allowed 

 me to examine the original specimen of the " Tapoa 

 Tafa " of White, now in the Museum of the College 

 of Surgeons, I am enabled to state with certainty that 

 it is the same as the Phascogale penicillata. — the 

 Dastjurus Tafa of Geoffrey must therefore be erased 

 from the list of species of Dasyuri. 



The Brush-tailed Phascogale, Mr. Gould informs 

 me, is found throughout the Colony of New South 

 Wales, and is common on Liverpool Plains — he has 

 also met with it at Adelaide in South Australia. In 

 the colony just mentioned, it frequently enters the 

 houses. 



YELLOW-FOOTED PHASCOGALE. 



Phascogale fiavipes. 



Plate IX. 



Phascogale fiavipes, Waterh. Proc. Zool. Soc. for July 1837, 

 p. 75. 



Description. — Fur moderately long, not very soft, 

 consisting of hairs of two lengths. On the back the 

 shorter hairs are of a paleish ochre colour at the apex, 

 and the longer hairs are black, on the sides of the 

 body and limbs the ochreous hue prevails, the black 

 hairs being less numerous ; the under parts of tlie 



