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10. Perameles gunni. 



Perameles ^nni, Gray, P. Z. S. 1838, p. 1 ; id. Ann. Mag. N. H. i. 

 p. 107 (1838); Qwm, Ann. Mag. N. H. i. p. 102 (habits) 

 (1838) j Owen, Tr. Z.S.n.v- 320 (1841); Oray, Grey's Austr., 

 App. ii. p. 401 (1841) ; Waterh. Jard. Nat. Libr., Mamm. xi. 

 p. 156, pL XV. (animal) (1841) ; Less. N. Tahl. R. A., Mamm. 

 p. 191 (1842) ; Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 95 (1843) ; Wagn. 

 Schr. iSaug. Supp. iii. p. 61 (1843), v. p. 214 (1865) ; Schinz, 

 Syn. Mamm. i. p. 517 (1844) ; Waterh. K IT. Mamm. i. p. 376 

 (1846); Llesm. Diet. Univ. d'S. JV. ix. p. 579 (1849); Gtmn, 

 P. Roy. Soc. Tasm. ii. p. 83 (1852) ; iScMeg. Dierk. p. 138 (1857) ; 

 Gould, Mamm. Austr. i. pi. ix. (animal) (1859) ; Gieb. Saug. 

 p. 722 (1859) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 132 (1862) ; 

 Kreft, Notes Faun. Tasm. p. 4 (1868) ; id. Austr. Vert. p. 13 

 (1871) ; Sehleg. Dierh. p. 163 (1872) ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mm. 

 p. 306 (1887). 



GtTNN's Bandicoot. 



Size and proportions as in P. nasvuta. Pur soft, not spiny, except 

 slightly on the sides of the body ; underfur abundant, dark slaty 

 grey except on the -white rump-bands. General colour grizzled 

 yellowish brown, rump banded. Muzzle long, rather shorter than 

 that of P. nasuta. Ears long and pointed, laid forward they reach 

 beyond the eye ; their backs yellowish brown, with a darker blotch 

 on their anterior haK terminally ; metatragus about twice as long 

 as broad, its end tufted with short hairs. Top of head and anterior 

 half of back coarsely grizzled yellowish brown, some of the hairs 

 black- and others yellow-tipped, their bases aU grey. Behind the 

 shoulders an indistinct whitish band passes downwards and back- 

 wards to join the light colour of the belly. Sides of rump with 

 four more or less distinct pale vertical bands running downwards 

 from near the middle line, the spaces between them brown or 

 black ; these stripes and their dark interspaces much more prominent 

 in young than in old specimens. Chin, chest, and beUy white or 

 yellowish white. Outsides of forearms and backs of legs dark slaty 

 grey, remainder of Jimbs white. Soles black and hairy posteriorly, 

 white and naked anteriorly; a small round striated pad- at the base 

 of both the fourth and fifth toes. Tail very short, slender, thinly 

 haired, its upper side dark for only its basal half or three quarters 

 of an inch, the remainder white. 



Skull very similar to that of P. nasuta with the following 

 exceptions : — The nasals, although still very long and narrow, are 

 rather shorter, their greatest breadth going only about 5| or 6 times 

 in their length. The palate is more incomplete ; the anterior 

 palatine foramina extend nearly to the level of the front of the 

 canines ; there is a second pair of vacuities opposite p.^ and p.^ and 

 the posterior palatine vacuities are rather larger. In other respects- 

 the description given under P. nasuta is equally applicable to the 

 skuU of this species. 



Teeth precisely similar to those of P. nasuta except that the 

 canines, both above and below, are decidedly smaller. 



