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person, if standing up to receive him, 
being a favourite goal to aim at. In 
all instances, as on other occasions 
noted, the oblique attitude previously 
attested to, was in no way departed 
from. This same individual distinguished 
himself one day in this apartment by so 
utterly disappearing, instead of return- 
ing as usual to his nest to sleep, that 
he was given up for lost. Towards 
dusk, however, Master Tiny, as he was 
familiarly known, quietly emerged—like 
Minerva springing from the head of 
Jupiter—from the summit of one of the 
stereotyped hollow China dogs that 
adorned the hotel-room mantelpiece. A 
small hole had been accidentally broken 
in the back of the head of this ornament, and into this the 
little Phalanger had managed to squeeze himself. In fact, so 
long as the opportunity lasted, he now regularly repaired to this 
singular dormitory for his siesta, doubtless regarding it as a 
W, Saville-Kent, Photo. 
WHITE INDIVIDUAL OF LARGE FLYING 
PHALANGER, Petauroides volans, WITH TAIL 
PENDULOUS AND IN ITS CHARACTERISTIC 
SPIRALLY ENROLLED STATE. p. 22, 
ONE-FIFTH NATURAL SIZE, 
W. Saville-Kent, del. 
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