274 PHALANGISTIDJ5. 



COOK'S PHALANGER. 



Phalangista CooHi. 

 PLATE XXV. 



Phalangista Cookii, Cuvier, Regne Animal 1, p. 183. 



Temminck, Desmarest^ Lesson <J" Fischer. 



Banksii, Gray. Annals of Natural History for April 



1838, p. 107. 

 White-tailed Opossum, Shaw. General Zoology., VoL I~, 



part 2, p. 504. 

 New Holland Opossum, Pennant. History of Quadrupeds. 



Ear small and rounded, nearly naked within ; 

 externally > well clothed with fur of a bright rust 

 colour, assuming a deeper tint at the root of the ear, 

 and a yellowish white hue at the posterior or lower 

 margin, where it forms a kind of fringe. Tail as 

 loxig as the head and body taken together, but 

 scantily clothed with hair, excepting at the base 

 where a space of about 2| inches in extent is cover- 

 ed with fur like that of the body, but which gradually 

 diminishes in quantity as it recedes from the root. 

 Fur moderately long, of tolerable length and slightly 

 woolly ; general tint of upper parts of body rusty- 

 grey ; on the head, limbs, sides cf the body, and 

 sides and under part of the tail at the base, a brilliant 

 rusty-yellow hue prevails ; a small white spot is ob- 

 servable on the cheeks, situated a little behind the 

 eye ; around the eye and on the sides of the muzzle, 

 the fur assumes a somewhat deeper hue than on 

 other parts of the head ; the chin, throat, under 



