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inner side of limbs, are white — not pure — and the 

 hairs are uniform throughout — not grey at the base. 

 Towards the base, (on the upper side,) the hairs of 

 the tail are grizzled with black and yellowish, and 

 at the apex they are black ; on the under side of the 

 tail they are dirty white. The ears are moderately 

 well clothed with short hairs, those on the inner side 

 are yellow, and those on the outer side black, except- 

 ing on the margin, where they are pale. The limbs 

 are coloured externally, as the sides of the body; 

 the feet are pale ; the hairs on the toes are dirty 

 white, on the upper side of the tarsus they are yel- 

 lowish, but grey at the base ; hairs of the moustaches 

 weak and not numerous. 



Length from nose to root of tail, 13 inches 6 lines; 

 tail, about 4| inches ; nose to ear, 3 inches ; ear, 8 

 lines ; tarsus (claws not included,) 2 inches ; from 

 front of anterior incisor to canine, 4| lines. 



Four incisors on each side of upper jaw are con- 

 tiguous, behind these is another incisor, which is 

 small and pointed, and is situated about half a line 

 distant from the last of the series. 



Habitat New South Wales and Van Diemen's 

 Land. 



The little animal which is the original both of 

 Shaw's and Geoffrey Saint-Hillaire's descriptions, is 

 now preserved in the Museum of the College of 

 Surgeons. Professor Owen very kindly called my 

 attention to it, and has thus enabled me to clear up 

 the difficulty which I experienced in my endeavours 

 to identify the species. It is a very young animal. 



