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DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE GENUS CUSCUS. 



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within, extended beyond the fur of the liead. Fur of body and tail 

 uniformly coloured, with a dorsal streak. Strigocuscus. 



5. Cuscus (S.) CELEBENSis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 105, t. 62. 



Hub. St. Cristoval, Solomon's Group of Islands. 

 We have both sexes in the British Museum Collection, and the 

 skulls of two others nearly adult, collected by Mr. Rayner and Mr. 



Skull of Cuscus celebensis (upper surface). 



J. Macgillivray during the voyage of the ' Herald.' There is very 

 little difference between the two skulls, though they are from a male 

 and female animal. 



Skull of Cuscus celebensis (side view). 



In the description of the species in the paper above referred to, 

 the animal is erroneously said, by a slip of the pen, to have no 

 dorsal streak. 



We have in the British Museum a young specimen of a Cuscus 

 from Macassar, which is very like C. cele/jensis, but it has no visible 

 dorsal streak : it is not in a very good condition. It may be a va- 

 riety of this species, or the young of one of the other, or perhaps 

 an undeveloped state of a new one. 



