PHALANGISTA CANINA. 271 



of the Australian Museum, publislied at Sydney in 

 1837. 



The specimen from which the foregoing description 

 is taken, is also the original of Mr. Ogilby's descrip- 

 tion. Like Phalangista vulpina, and P.fuliginosa, 

 this species has long ears, and a very bushy tail, it is 

 however, of a smaller size than either of these species, 

 being scarcely equal to a rabbit in size, the tail is 

 rather shorter in proportion, and decreases in diame- 

 ter more suddenly from the base to the apex ; its 

 colouring is, moreover, different, being black in the 

 middle and white at the apex. 



CANINE PHALANGER. 



Phalangista canina. 



Phalangista canina, Ogilby. Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London for December 1836, p. 191-2. 



Ears short and rounded, nearly naked within; ex- 

 ternally furnished at the base with fur of the same 

 character as that of the head, and of a blackish hue, 

 but towards the posterior margin whitish ; tail very 

 bushy, nearly equal to the body in length ; fur 

 moderately long, dense, and somewhat woolly, gene- 

 ral tint rather deep brownish-grey, grizzled with 

 whitish ; the hairs on the upper parts of the body 

 being annulated with that colour near the apex; chin 

 brownish on either side ; the throat, chest, (with the 

 exception of a narrow brownish longitudinal mark in 

 the middle,) under parts of the body and inner side 



