176 PHALANSBEIDiB. 



5. Fseudochirns cooki. 



Opossum, Cooh, Third Voyage, i. p. 109, pi. Tiii. (animal) (1784). 



Phalangista cooki, Desm. N. Diet. d'H. N. (2) xxv. p. 476 (1817) ; 

 id. Mamm. i. p. 268 (1820); Sckinz, Cm. Thierr. i. p. 258(1821); 

 Temm. Mon. Mamm. i. p. 7 (1827) ; Oray, Oriff. Cm. An. K. v 

 p. 198 (1827) ; Less. Man. Mamm. p. 218 (1827) ; id. Diet. Class. 

 dH. N. xiii. p. 334 (1828); J. B. Fisch. Syn. Mamm. p. 277 

 (1829) ; Gunn, Ann. Mag. N. It. i. p. 102 (1838) ; Gray, Ann. 

 Mag. N. H. i. p. 107 (1838) ; Wagn. Sehr. Sdug. Supp. iii. p. 78 

 (1843), V. p. 274 (1855) ; Owen, Odontogr., Atl. pi. c. fig. 2 

 (teeth) (1845) ; Gunn, P. Roy. Sac. Tasm. ii. p. 84 (1852) ; Gieb. 

 Odontogr. p. 42, pi. xviii. fig. 2 (teeth) (1865); Schkg. Dierent. 

 ■p. 166(1872). 



Petamrus cooki, F. Cm. Dents Mamm. pp. 129, 263 (1825) ; id. 

 Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxix. p. 417 (1826). 



Trichosurus cooki, Less. S. N. Mamm. {Campl. Buff.) iv. p. 471 

 pi. xxviii. (animal) (1830). 



Phalangista yiverrina, Ogilb. P. Z. 8. 1837, p. 131 ; Waterh. Cat. 

 Mamm. Mus. Z. S. p. 67 (1838) ; Svhinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 529 

 (1844) ; Homhr. ^ Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Zool. iii. pp. 31, 33, Atl. 

 pis. xiv. (animal and skuU), xv. (animal, albino, and skull) 

 (1845-53); Gould, Mamm. 'Austr. i. pi. xix. (animal) (1856); 

 Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. -p. 122 (186S) ; Kreffl, Cat. 

 Mamm. Austr. Mus. p. 37 (1864) ; id. Notes Faun. Tasm. p. 4 

 (1868) ; id. Mamm. Austr. text to pi. vii. p. 2 (1871). 



Hepoona cooki. Gray, Grey's Austr., App. ii. p. 402 (1841) ; id. 

 List Mamm. B. M. p. 84 (1843) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. 

 B. M. p. 121 (1862). 



Phalangista (Pseudochirus) vivemnus, Waterh. Jard. Nat. Libr., 

 Mamm. xi. p. 277, pi. xxiv. (animal) (1841). 



Trichosurus viverrinus, Less. N. Tahl. JR. A., Mamm. p. 189 (1842). 



Phalangista incana, Sohinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 530 (1844). 



Tasmaniak Kino-taileb Phalangek. 



Pur very thick, close and ■wooUy. General colour dark smoky 

 brown, sometimes with a tinge of deep rufous on the limbs. Face 

 brown, cheeks rather paler. Ears large, rounded, weU-haired 

 behind, where the hairs are brown anteriorly ; but, as a rule, they are 

 prominently white along the whole posterior margin of the ear, the 

 white patch often extending downwards on to the sides of the head 

 below tbe ear. Whole of back uniform deep brown, with longer 

 straight black-tipped hairs interspersed among the brown and 

 woolly ones. Chin, chest, and belly white, the line of demarcation 

 generally rather sharply defined ; the hairs mostly slaty grey basally. 

 Outsides of limbs brown, sometimes deep rufous, but never 

 the bright rufous found in Ps. peregrinits. Hands and feet dark 

 brown or black. Tail closely furry, evenly tapering, dark brown, 

 deepening to black basally, white terminally for from two to four 

 inches ; the' naked part beneath the end from three to five inches in 

 length, smooth, not shagreened. 



Skull (PI. XVIII. fig. 7 and PI. XIX. fig. 4). Nasal notch very 

 deep, the tip of the nasals projecting always more than seven, often 



