HYPSIPRYMNUS OGILBYI. 185 



Tlie specimen is in the Museum of the Zoological 

 Society. 



The Hypsipri/mnus penicillatus , Mr. Gould informs 

 me, is common throughout the Colony of New South 

 Wales_, and is also found at Adelaide. 



OGILBY'S HYPSIPRYMNUS. 



Hypsq^rym nus Ofdhiji. 

 Bettongia Ogilbyi, Gould MS. 



Less than a rahhit ; tail moderately long ; fur 

 dense, the under fur very abundant, soft, long and 

 woolly ; general colonr brown, (not dark,) ohscurely 

 washed with yellow on the sides of the face and 

 body ; the whole of the under parts of the body 

 dirty yellowish white ; ears rather short and round- 

 ed, clothed with yellow hairs ; hind-feet brown, dark- 

 est on the sides, especially of the toes ; fore-feet 

 palish brown. Tail well clothed; a very small space 

 at the base covered with fur like that of the body; 

 beyond this, and extending to about the middle of 

 the tail, the hairs are of a rusty hue on the upper 

 side, and very pale brown on the under; the apical 

 half of the tail is clothed with black hairs, which 

 vary from rather more than half, to three quarters of 

 an inch in length — those nearest the tip are the long- 

 est ; on the sides of the tail the hairs are comparative- 

 ly short, and excepting at the tip they are chiefly of a 

 deep brown colour; on the under side of the apical 

 half of the tail the hairs are longer than on the sides. 



