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hao-hg and oo$og) is not prehensile. Their hinder thumb 

 is also much shorter, and like a tubercle. Thev 

 inhabit New Holland, and live on insects, carcasses, 

 Src, sometimes penetrating even into the houses, 

 where their voracity renders them very unseason- 

 able guests. Their mouth is less divided, their 

 muzzle less pointed, their ears are hairy, and shorter 

 than in the sarigues. They do not climb trees. 



The Dog-headed Dasyurus, (Did. Cynocephala,) Harris, 

 . Soc. Lin. IX. xix. 



As large as a dog (three feet and a half long 

 without the tail, which is nearly two,) tail com- 

 pressed ; gray fur. 



The Rough Dasyurus, {Did. Ursina, id. ib.) 



With long, coarse, black hairs, and some white 

 spots irregularly distributed. It inhabits with 

 the preceding the north of Van Dieman's Land. 

 Mr. Harris gives it eight incisors above and 

 ten below ; makes the tail slightly prehensile, 

 and naked on the under side. It may probably 

 form a new sub-genus when better known. 



The Long-tailed Dasyurus, {Das. Macrouros), Geoff. Peron. 

 Voy.pl. xxxin. 



As large as a marten, with a tail as long as the 



body. Brown fur spotted with white covering 



the body and the tail. 



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