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The Phascogale presents the following characters :— 
PuascogaLe aupires. Phase. pilis brevibus et permollibus ; corpore 
supra nigro et flavescenti-irrorato, infra albo; pedibus albis ; 
cauda longa supra fuscescente, infra fusco-albd, 
une. lin. 
Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caude basin.... 3 9 
ns ad basin auris .... 0 105 
ae GUFISME TG Ree kc ee ae Oe Or Or? 
re COUN go ww ce te mace cinse saws 3 2 
tarsi digitorumque.........- Gen ey ae 
Hab. Port Adelaide. 
The fur in this little animal is shorter than in other species of 
Phascogale hitherto described, and extremely soft; it is of a deep 
slate-grey colour next the skin, but externally, on the upper parts of 
the body, the colour is brownish, a tint produced by the admixture 
of black and yellow, the hairs being annulated with the latter colour 
near the point, and black at the point. The under parts of the body 
are greyish white, each hair being deep grey and tipped with white. 
The feet are white. The tail is furnished throughout with very 
minute hairs. It approaches most nearly to the P. murina, but differs 
in being rather larger, in general colouring, and especially in having 
the tail of a dark colour, and not white, as in that species. 
