1. fBEAGALE. 



225 



Dimensions, 



6. S. ^ 



f (stuffed). * (in spirit). 



Adult. Adult. 



miUim miUim. 



Head and body (c). 440 400 



Tail (o.) 220 



Hind foot 98 103 



Muzzle to eye 61 ' 



Ear 90 115 



Skull, see p. 227. 



Hab. South and "West Australia. 

 Tyjpe in colleetion. 



a. Ad., skull. Gawler Plains, S. A. Purchased. 



b. Imm. sk, S ■ South Australia. Purchased. 



c. Yg. skull. Port Leschenault, W. A. > W. E. Bates, Esq. 



[P.]. ' 

 , I Ad. sk. ) „ Swan E., W. A. Zool. See. (A. Gordon, 



"• jSkuU. [ ?• Esq. [P.]). 



(Type of species.) 

 e Ad. skull, d . Swan E., W. A. Purchased. 



/. Ad. St., d, 6/39. Northam, W. A. (/. Git- Gould Coll. 



, bert). 

 g. Yg. St., 5/43. Northam, W. A. {J. Gil- Gould Coll. 



beH). 

 h. Ad. skeleton ( ? ). , Dr. G. Bennett [P.]. 



i. Ad. skull. Sir E. Owen [PT]. 



2. Peragale leucura. (Plate II.) 

 Peragale leucura, Thos. Ann. Mag. N. H. (5) lix. p. 397 (1887). 



The following description is drawn up from the only specimen as 

 yet known, a very young male, with its milk-teeth still in place, 

 and may therefore have to be modified when fuUy adult individual* 

 are obt^ned. 



Size small, form slender. Fur long, soft and silky. General 

 colour uniform pale yellowish fawn. Head long, muzzle narrow ; 

 naked rhinarium confined to the extreme tip of the snout, and not 

 extending backwards along the top of the muzzle (unless the latter 

 part wears bare as life advances)'. Ears when laid forward reaching 

 beyond the tip of the muzzle, evenly thinly clothed with fine silvery 

 hairs, which form a delicate fringe round their edges; their 

 substance yellowish flesh-colour, except for their posterior half 

 distally, where it is slaty grey. Metatragus large, oblong, its edges 

 slightly concave, its tip broadly rounded, hairy; the long secon- 

 dary lo,wer fold also with a small triangular projection at its centre. 

 Top of head and back fawn, sufiiised with slaty grey, the hairs slate- 



* Preserved in the Berlin Museum. 



