246 PERAMELID^. 



Dimensions. 



d (sMn). e (stuffed). 



millim. millira. 



Head and body (c.) 380 (c.) 400 



Tail (c.) 80 (c.) 90 



Hind foot 72 70 



Muzzle to eye (c.) 60 65 



Ear 31 34 



Skull, see p. 249. 



ffab. Tasmania, and possibly Southern Victoria (see footnote). 

 Ty^e in collection. 



a, b. Ad. sks., S2- Port Pliillip,Victoria ' (?). Gould CoU. 



c. Yg. sk. Northern Tasmania. W. P. Petterd, Esq. [E. 



&C.1. 



d. Ad. sk., S ■ Tasmania. Ronald Gunn, Esq. [P. 



& 0.]. 



{Type of species.) 



e. Ad. St., 2 . Tasmania. Eonald Gunn, Esq. [P. 



&C.]. 

 /. Yg. al., cJ . Tasmania. Ronald Gunn, Esq. [P. 



&0.]. 

 I Ad. sk. I n Tasmania. Gen. Hardwicke fP-l- 



ff- j Skull. ?• ^ ^ 



. j Ad. sk. 1 J, Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



^- ] Skull, f ^• 



11. Ferameles bongaiavillei. 

 a. Peramelesbougalnvillei, var. typicat. 



Perameles bougainvillei, Quoy Sf Qaim. Voy. Uranie, Zool. p. 66, 

 Atl. pi. V. (animal and skull) (1824) ; Oaim. Bull. Sci. Nat. i. 

 p. 270 (1824) ; Gray, Oriff. Cuv. An. K. v. p. 195 (1827) ; Less. 

 Man. Mamm. p. 217 (1827) ; id. Diet. Class. d^H. N. xiii. p. 199 

 (1828) ; Fisch. Syn. Mamm. p. 273 (1829) ; Less. H. N. Mamm. 

 (Compl. Buff.) iv. p. 484, pi. xxvii. (ammal) (1830); Waterh. 

 Jard. Nat. Idbr., Mamm. xi. p. 162 (1841) ; Less. N. Tabl. R. A., 

 Mamm. p. 191 (1842) ; Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 385 (1846) ; 

 Desm. Diet. Univ. d'H. N. ix. p. 578 (1849); Lyd. Cat. Foss. 

 Mamm. B. M. v. p. 256 (1887). 



Perameles myosura, Wagn. Arch.f. Nat. vii. pt. i. p. 293 (1841); 

 id. Schr. Sdiig. Supp. iii. tab. civ. a. d (animal) (1843), v. p. 215 

 (1855) ; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 519 (1844) ; Oould, Mamm. 

 Austr. i. pi. X. (animal) (1845) ; Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 381, 

 pi. XX. fig. 3 (skuU) (1846) ; Schleg. JDierk. p. 138 (1857) ; Gieb. 

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



* Specimens referred to by Gould, Mamm. Austr. i. text to pi. ix. The 

 occurrence of this species in Victoria is by no means improbable, considering 

 the number of Tasmanian species recently discovered in that colony, 

 t a. Sides of rump indistinctly striped. — Bab. W. 



Australia Var. typica. 



b. Sides of rump with well-defined stripes. — Hab. S. 



and E. Australia Var. fasoiata, p. 248. 



