270 PHALANGISTID^. 



but sparingly clothed ; the tail is scarcely as long as 

 the body, covered with fur of nearly the same charac- 

 ter as that of the body, but rather less dense, very 

 thick and bushy at the base, and tapering somewhat 

 suddenly to the apex ; the fur of the body is very 

 long, somewhat woolly and rather soft; its general 

 tint is deep ashy grey, obscurely mottled with white; 

 the longest hairs on the back are black, and as they 

 are tolerably abundant they give to that part a deeper 

 hue; a narrow space around the eye, and the muzzle 

 are dusky; the head is of a paler hue than the body; 

 the cheeks are whitish, obscurely tinted with yellow; 

 the chin is blackish on each side ; the throat, under 

 parts of the body^ and inner side of the limbs, are 

 dirty white ; a small rusty patch is observable on the 

 chest ; the feet are pale, slightly tinted with yellow^ 

 but the toes of the fore-feet are somewhat suffused 

 with brown ; the tail is of the same tint at the base 

 as the body ; in the middle it is black, and a space, 

 of about two inches in length, at the apex is white ; 

 nearly three inches of the apical portion beneath, and 

 the extreme point are naked ; the hairs of the 

 moustaches are black ; the claws are of a very pale 

 horn colour. 



Length from nose to root of tail, 1 6 inches ; tail, 

 10 inches 6 lines ; nose to ear, 2 inches 9 lines ; ear, 

 1 inch 8 lines ; tarsus, 2 inches ; fore-foot, 1 inch 

 1 line. 



This species inhabits " the interior of Australia, 

 from Tron-Bark Ilange, near the Glenelg River." 

 The authority for this Habitat is the Catalogue 



