10. CALOPKTMiroS. 115 



1. Caloprymnus campestris. 



Bettongia campestris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 81 ; id. Mamm. Austr. 



ii. pi. Ixvi. (animal) (1851) ; Qerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. 



p. 128 (1862) ; Krefft, Mamm. Austr. text to pi. xi. p. 5 (1871) ; 



Tate, Tr. Phil. Soc. iS. Austr. ii. p. 124 (1878). 

 Hypsiprymnus (Bettongia) campestris, Waterh. N. S. Mamm. i. 



p. 221, pi. vi. %. 2 (skull) (1846). 

 Hypsiprymnus campestris, Hchinz, 8yn. Mamm. ii. Sapp. p. 47 (1845) ; 

 Wagn. Schr. Sdug. Supp. v. p. 296 (1865) ; Ctieb. Sdug. p. 689 



(1859). 



Plaist Eat-Kah&aeoo. 



General form slender and delicate. Pace peculiarly broadened 

 between the orbits. Eur soft and straight, underfur thick and 

 abundant. General colour grizzled sandy, darker on the back, 

 brighter on the sides. Ears thickly clothed with short yellow hairs. 

 Longer hairs of head and back slaty grey for three fifths their length, 

 then with a broad prominent white band, their extreme tips brown 

 or black. Underfur slate-coloured at bdse, then dull sandy, its tips 

 brown on the top of the head and centre of the back, rich sandy 

 rufous on the sides, it being the colour of the underfur that gives 

 the prevailing sandy rufous tone to the whole animal. Chin, sides 

 of chest, and belly pale sandy white ; centre of chest naked in all 

 the specimens examined, and apparently glandular (see below under 

 Petaurus and Myrmeeohius). Arms and legs bright sandy rufous ; 

 hands and feet white ; hairs of feet quite short, not hiding the nails. 

 Tail sparsely covered with pale yellowish hairs, the most thickly 

 clothed part being the underside of the tip, where, in some speci- 

 mens, there is a rudimentary inferior crest. 



Shull (PI. XIV. fig. 9) as described above. Nasals with their 

 least going two and a half times in their greatest breadth, and the 

 latter going only once and a half in their length, and nearly or quite 

 equal to the distance from m.' to the front of the premaxillse. 

 Supraorbital edges sharp and foi^ming rudimentary postorbital pro- 

 cesses. Anterior palatine foramina extending some way behind the 

 canines. Posterior palatal vacuities very large, extending forwards 

 to the front of m.' Bullae large, their most prominent point about 

 10 millim. below the level of the glenoid fossa. 



Teeth as above. P." (PI. XIII. fig. 11) with four or five shallow 

 inconspicuous vertical grooves ; p.' very small, with only two or 

 three grooves. M.* about three-fourths the size of m.' 



Dimensions. 



a (stuffed). 

 Aged, 

 millim. 



Head and body 440 



Tail 360 



Hind foot 121 



Ear 31 



SkuU, see p. 125. 



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