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Besides several species of Ciiscus or Phalangers, one of 

 the commoner species being that figured on p. 420, there 

 are several allied genera of marsupials, among them the 

 pretty little animal represented on p. 421, which has a 

 rudimentary lateral membrane and thus forms a link 



Fig. 61. 



-Distcechurus pinnatus (two-thirds natural size). 



between the flying opossums of the genus Petaurus which 

 are common in New Guinea, and Cuscus. It has also a 

 very long tail, the hair spreading out bilaterally towards 

 the tip, and this indicates that it probably does pass 

 obliquely through the air from a high tree to a low one ; 



