PHALANGISTA VIVERRINA. 277 



VIVERRINE PHALANGERx 



Phalanglsta mterrina. 

 Plate XXIV.* 



Phalangista viverrina, Ogilby. Proceedings of the Zoological 



Society of London for November 1837. 

 Phalangista Cookii, Gray. In the Annals of Natural History, 



or Magazine of Zoology and Botany for April 1838. 



Ears sLort and rounded, nearly naked within, but 

 clothed with woolly fur on the posterior part ; this 

 fur is white, excepting on the fore part of the ear, 

 and also at the root, where it is hrown ; a patch of 

 white hairs, adjoining those of the ear, is observable 

 immediately under the ear ; tail not bushy, rather 

 longer than the body ; at the base, covered with fur 

 of the same character as that of the body, but about 

 three inches from the root, the fur of the tail is less 

 woolly, and considerably shorter; its length gradually 

 decreases to the tip of the tail, where the hairs are 

 very short ; the fur of the body is long, loose, and 

 somewhat woolly and soft ; its general tint is brown- 

 ish-grey, and on the under parts of the body, and 

 inner sides of the limbs at the base, white; the muzzle 

 is blackish, and the cheeks are paler than other parts 

 of the head ; a small white spot is situated on the 

 cheek, a little behind the eye ; the fur of the tail is 

 coloured like the body at the base, blackish in the 



* For "Phalangista Banhsii,'''' on Plate 24, read '■^Phalangista 

 viverrina,'''' 



