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Chrysorrhos would perhaps be the better name for this species, 

 because all I have seen have a yellow rump and base of the tail, but 

 some are not spotted. 



Of this species we have in the British Museum — 



1. Adult female, from the Moluccas, from the Leyden Museum, 

 sent as C. chrysorrhos. Uniform ashy-grey ; face, throat, chest, and 

 beneath the rump and base of the tail yellowish. 



2. Young female, from the south coast of New Guinea. Pre- 

 sented by J. B. Jukes, Esq. Dark blackish-ashy ; head, neck and 

 shoulders paler ; rump and base of the tail reddish-yellow ; cheeks, 

 throat and beneath white ; feet bright red. 



The two sides of this specimen are not coloured alike. The fore- 

 head of the skull is very convex. 



3. Half-grown "male from Darnley Island, brought from the 

 south coast of New Guinea." Presented by J. Macgillivray, Esq. 

 Reddish; back and thighs darker blackish-ashy; cheeks, throat, under 

 side, large confluent spots on the sides, the rump and tail white ; 

 feet bright red. Like Cuscus maculatus, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. 

 Uranie, t. 7. 



4. Half-grown " male from New Guinea." Presented by J. Mac- 

 gillivray, Esq. Like the former, but white, with irregular large 

 symmetrical pale reddish spots on body, limbs and tail. 



5. Half grown " female from Dufaure Island, south coast of New 

 Guinea." Presented by John Macgillivray, Esq. Like the former, 

 but white, with one very large reddish spot on the hinder part of 

 the back ; two large spots on the hind legs, and an obscured in- 

 dication of a large patch on the shoulders ; the feet red. 



6. Half grown, from the "island of Waygeroo." From M. Ver- 

 reaux. Ashy-grey cheeks ; back with some white spots ; throat, 

 chest, belly, rump and tail white ; sides white, with scattered, round, 

 nearly equal-sized spots ; feet reddish. 



7. Adult male. Aru Island. Sent by Mr. Wallace. White ; body 

 and limbs with small, roundish, rarely confluent, black-ashy spots ; 

 feet white : the skull has a very convex forehead. 



Cuscus maculatus, Lesson, Voy. Coq. t. 4, is intermediate in 

 colour and marking between Nos. 7 and 3. 



Cuscus macrourus, Lesson, Voy. Coq. t. 5, from the island of 

 Waygeroo, bears a great similarity to No. 3 ; but the reddish spots 

 are less confluent. 



The figure of C. Quoyi, in Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, t. 6, 

 looks like a specimen of this species intermediate between the ashy 

 and spotted variety, being ashy with darker obscure spots. 



2. CUSCUS BREVICAUDATUS. 



The ears hid in the fur, woolly internally and externally ; tail 

 short ; the forehead ? ; the front lower'cutting-teeth broad. 



