1909.] OF MARSUPIALS AND MONOTRKMES IN S.W. AUSTRALIA. 839 



thickly populated districts on account of being so destructive to 

 poultry. 



Not extending far inland. Arboreal and nocturnal, hiding by 

 day in crevices among rocks, deserted burrows, hollow logs, ifec 



Yery much resembling Viverr-ine animals in habits. 



30 specimens collected. Wagin (Arthur River) ; Beverley 

 (Avon River) ; Brookton (Dwaladine) ; Pinjelly (Woyaliiie 

 Wells) ; Busselton (Beachlands ; Yallingup) ; Margaret River 

 (Burnside). 



ISTative Oat of Colonists. 



' Chuditch ' (Beverley), ' Gnuljargneet ' (Busselton), ' Barry- 

 git ' (Moere River), of natives. 



Phascogale flavipes leucogaster Gray. (Text-fig. 270.) 



Confined in the South-West to the coastal and well-watered 

 forest districts. 



The specimens obtained near Albany were trapped in rough 

 ironstone country timbered with Jarrah and Red Gum. Formerly 

 obtained in the Victoria Plains near ISTortham by Gilbert, where 

 it is now without doubt extinct ; nearly all the small marsupials 

 appear to have died out in that district. 



6 specimens collected. Albany; Kojonup. 



Phascogale calura Gld. (Text-fig. 271, p. 840.) 



Very rare, seeming hithei-to to have been I'ecorded only four 

 times from Westei-n Australia : once from the Williams River, 

 wdiere it was originally obtained by Gilbert, and three times since 

 from around Kojonup, 



The British Museum has an old specimen from Adelaide, which 

 seems to be the only known instance of its capture in South 

 Australia. 



1 specimen collected. Kojonup (in Perth^Museum). 



Phascogale pexicillata Shaw. (Text-fig. 272, p. 841.) 



Although not plentiful this species seems to have a more 

 general range in South- Western Australia than the smaller 

 Phascogales. 



Doubtfully recorded fi-om as far inland as Kalgoorlie, where it 

 would probably only be a straggler. Said to be generally distri- 

 buted throughout the southern parts of South Australia. 



Arboreal. Yery active among the branches of trees. Occa- 

 sionally frequenting the neighbourhood of farms, where according 

 to natives they come after mice. 



4 specimens collected. Busselton (Yallingup) ; Margai^et River 

 (caves) (skull). 



Scjuirrel of Colonists. 



' Coming-coming ' (Beverley), ' Wambgner ' (Busselton), of 

 natives. 



