SYNOPSIS OF THE 



Icon. ShaWi Zool. i. t. 110. Phillips' Voy. ^.16. Bewicki, 

 Quad. i. 376. F. Cuv. Dent. Mamm. 

 Inhab. Port Jackson. 



509. 7. P. Cookii (Cook's Phalanger.) Fur brown or 

 reddish-gray above ; white beneath ; tail brown, and white 

 at the end ; size of the Pole cat. 



Phalangista Cookii, Desm. Mamm. 268. Petaurista 

 Cookii, F. Cuv. Dent. Mamm. 



Opossum. Hawskworth, Voy. vii. 586. Cook's last Voyage, 

 i. 108. White-tailed Opossum, Shaw, Zool. i. 504. Pha- 

 langer de Cook, Cuv. Reg. Anim. i. 779. 



Icon. Cook's Voy. t. 4. Ency. Method. Supp. t. 8. /. 3. 



Inhab. Van Diemen's Land. 



This species differs from the former in its teeth according 

 to M. F. Cuvier. 



510. 8. P. Nana (Dwarf Phalanger.) Fur reddish-gray 

 above; white beneath ; tail brown. 



Phalangista Nana, GeoJ^. MSS. Desm. Mamm. i. 268. 



Icon. 



Inhab. East Coast of Van Diemen's Land. 



Genus V. — Petaurista. 

 Cutting-teeth, f ; lower horizontal ; canine i^ or ii^ ; 

 cheek-teeth ff or |^ ; head rather long ; eyes small ; ears 

 long ; feet short ; five toes ; the hinder with a large nail- 

 less thumb ; the two first toes short, united by a common 

 skin ; claws compressed, arched ; skin of the sides extended 

 and uniting the extremities, so as to form a parachute. 

 Tail long; hairs not prehensile. 



* Tail round. 



511. I. P, Taguanoides (Petaurine Opossum.) Fur very 

 soft ; gray-brown, or shining-brown above ; throat and chest 

 white ; tail brown, yellowish-brown at the base. 



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