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SPECIES OP MAMMALIA. 



Phalangista Papuensis, Desm. Mam. 541. P. Qiioicy, 

 Gaimard, Bull Sci. vii. 64. 



Icon. 



Inhab. New Guinea. 



Obs This seems to be considered by M. Temminck as a 

 variety of the last. 



506. 4. F. Ursina (Bear-like Phalanger.) Fur thick ; 

 black, with a yellowish cast, caused by the end of the hairs 

 being tipped with that colour; tail very furry; size of a 

 Civette. 



Phalangista Ursina, Temminck, Monag. de Mamm, 

 Icon. Temminck, I. c. t. 8, and Osteology, t. 4. 



507. 5. P. Chrysorrhos (Yellow -tufted Phalanger.) Fur 

 short, thick, cottony ; head pale ash-gray ; ears white 

 above; blackish-gray, with a black line on each flank ; rump 

 and end of the tail bright golden yellow ; beneath white ; 

 hinder part reddish. 



P. Chrysorrhos, Temminck, Monag. de Mamm.]). 12. 



Icon. 



Inhab, Island of Celebres. 



** Tail hairy, prehensile. 



508. 6. P. Vulpina (Fox-like Phalanger.) Fur gray- 

 brown above, passing into yellow-gray on the head and 

 shoulders; gray beneath; tail tufted; base like the back» 

 end black. 



DidelphisLemurina, Shaw, Zool. i. 487. D. Vulpina, Shaw, 

 ^i c. 363. D. Peregrinus, Bod. Elench. Anim. Phalangist 

 Vulpina, Desm. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. xxv. 475. 



Wha Topoa Voo, White, Jour. Voy. to New Sou/h JTules, 

 278. Lemurine Opossum, Shaw, i. 487. New Soulli Wales 

 Opossum, Bewick, Quad. 376. New Holland Bear, Pennant, 

 Quad. vi. 13. Vulpine Opossum, Phillip.'}, Voy. 150. Lc 

 Bruno, Vicq, d'Azyr. Sys\ Anal, des Anim. vi. 251. 



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