PHASCOGALE MURINA. 143 



MURINE PHASCOGALE. 



Phascogale murina. 



Plate X. 



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

 p. 76. 



This species may be readily distinguished from the 

 former by its much smaller size, being in fact rather 

 less than the common mouse (Mus musculus,) or 

 less than half the bulk of P.flavipes. The fur is 

 rather short and soft ; its general hue is grey with a 

 faint yellowish tint, the longer hairs on the upper 

 parts of the body being grey at the apex, and the 

 shorter hairs tipped with pale yellow or cream colour; 

 the feet and under parts are white, as are likewise 

 the sides of the face beneath the eye. All the hairs 

 of the body are of a deep slate-colour at the base. 

 The tail is covered with very minute closely ad- 

 pressed silvery white hairs. The dentition is evidently 

 that of an adult animal : the canines and anterior 

 incisors of both upper and lower jaws appear to be 

 smaller in proportion than in P. flavipes. 



Length from nose to root of tail, 3 inches ; tail, 

 2 inches 7 lines; from nos© to base of ear, 8^ lines; 

 tarsus, (claws included) 7f lines ; ear, 4| lines. 



Habitat North of Hunter's River, New South 

 Wales. 



