3. DASTUETO. 



269 



Dimensions. 



a. . ?• 



(stuffed). a (m spirit). 



Adult. Adult, 



miflim, millim. 



Head and body 400 360 



Tail 310 270 



Hind foot 63 60 



Ear 31 31 



SkuU, see p. 272. 



Hah. All Australia except the extreme north. ; in the east living 

 chiefly in the interior rather than the coast districts, where it is 

 superseded by D. viverrinus. Not found in Tasmania. 



Type in collection. 



Judging by the relative sizes of the skulls (see p. 272) the weBtern 

 race of this species seems somewhat to exceed the eastern, the males 

 of the latter little more than equalling in size the females of the 

 former. The difference is not, however, by any means sufficient to 

 found nominal distinction upon. 



- I Ad. al., 5 I Peak Downs, Queensland. Godeffroy Museum. 



"■ ] & 5 foetuses. ( 



, J Ad. sk. I , Liverpool Plains, N. S. W. Gould Coll. 



"• ) SkuU. \°- (?Vi?e of species.) 



c. Ad. St.,!?. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



J i Ad. sks. I ,n Brushesof MurravR., S. A. Gould Coll. 



'^''- j Skulls. \'^^- 



J. j' Ad. sk. I , South Australia. Sir George Grey 



•'■ Skull, f '^^ [P. &C.]. 



£?. Ad.sk., $,21/12/42. Vasse E., W. Australia Gould CoU. 



(J. Gilbert). 

 , j Ad. St. I o Perth, W. A. Purchased. 

 ^-jSkuU. [?• 

 «,_;■. Imm. sks. Perth, W. A. Government of W. 



Australia [P.]. 

 k. Skull. C. Lesohenault, Twiss, W. A. Purchased. 



l-n. SkuUs (3 cJ , 1 $ ). Shark's Bay, W. A. ( Voy. F. M. Rayner, Esq. 



'Herald'). [P.]. 



0. Skull, cJ. Gould Coll. 



4. Dasjmrus hallucatus. 



Dasyurus hallucatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 41 ; Gray, List Mamm. 

 B.,M. p. 98 (1843) ; Sahinz, Syn. Mamm. p. 492 (1844) ; Waterh. 

 N. H. Mamm. i. p. 434 (1846) ; Goidd, Mamm. Austr. i. pi. lii. 

 (animal) (1851) ; Wagn. Schr. Saug. Supp. v. p. 195 (1856) ; Gieb. 

 Sciug. p. 730 (1859) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 134 

 (1862) ; Krefft, Austr. Vert. p. 14 (1871) ; Coll. Zool. Jahrh. ii. 

 p. 857 (1887). 



NoETH-AtJSTRAIIAN DASItnBE. 



Size small, not more than half the bulk of B. viverrinus ; form 

 slender. Fur short and coarse ; underfur thin, pale slaty grey. 



