4. PHAscoLoeALE. 287 



a,b. \t^:,f^\ I - g. Gippsland. Purchased. 



' I Skull of a. I " + 



I Ad. st. ) , Tasman's Peninsula, Gould Coll. 



• I Skull, f °- Tasmania. 



d. Ad. sk., (S . Table Cape, Tasmania. W. F. Petterd, Esq. 



[C. & E.]. 



e. Ad. St., cJ. Tasmania. Lieut. A. Smith [P. 



&0.]. 

 V. Swa 



{Type 

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Esq. [P.]. 



f I Ad. sk. I , Tasmania. W. Swainson, Esq. 



■'• j Skull, j °' (TVpe of 'Species.) 



^ J Ad. sk. i o G. R. Waterhouse, 



^- I Skull, f ?• _ -- ' 



8. Fhascologale minima. 



Dasyurus minimus, Geoff. Ann. Mm. iii. p. 362 (1804) ; Tiedem. 



Zool. p. 429 (1808) ; G. Msch. Zoogn. ii. p. 586 (1813) ; Besm. 



N. Diet. WS. N. (2) ix. p. 140 (1817) ; Ge(ff. Diet. Sci. Nat. xii. 



p. 511 (1818) ; Besm. Mamm. i. p. 264 (1820) ; Besmoul Diet. 



Class. d'H. N. v. p. 3.38 (1824) ; Gray, Griff. Cuv. An. K. v. p. 194 



(1827) ; /. B. Fiseh. Syn. Mamm. p. 273 (1829). 

 Phascogale minima, Temm. Mon. Mamm. i. p. 59 (1827) ; Less. 



Man. Mamm. p. 215 (1827) ; id. H. N. Mamm. {Compl. Buff.) v. 



p. 371 (1836) ; Gray, Grey's Amtr., App. ii. p. 401 (1841) ; 

 Waterh. Jard. Nat. lAbr,, Mamm. xi. p. 140 (1841) ; Less. N. 



Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 191 (1842) ; Wagn. Schr. Sateg. Supp. iii. 



p. 38, pi. clii. B. e (animal) (1843), v. p. 202 (1855) ; Schinz, Syn. 



Mamm. i. p. 495 (1844) ; Sehleg. Bierk. p. 137 (1857) ; Jent. Cat. 



Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 304 (1887). 

 Didelphys minima, Wagl. Syst. Amphib. Siiug. p. 25 (1830). 

 Phascogale affinis, Gray, Grey's Austr., App. ii. p. 406 (1841) ; id. 



Ust Mamm. B. M. p. 99 (1843). 

 Antechinus minimus, Gray, lAst Mamm. B. M. p. 99 (1843) ; Higg. 



Si' Pett. P. Boy. Soc. Tasm. 1883, p. 196. 

 Phascogale (Antechinus) minima, Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 419 



(1846) ; Gunn, P. Roy. Soc. Tasm. ii. p. 82 (1852). 

 Antechinus affinis, Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 136 C1862) ; 



Krefft, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 432 ; Gi-ay, Voy. Ereb. Terr., Mamm. 



p. 12 b, pi. XXV. fig. 3 (animal) (1875). 

 Antechinus rolandensis, Higg. Sf Pett. P. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1882, 



p. 171. 

 Antechinus concinnus, Higg. ^ Pett. op. cit. 1883, p. 184. 



Little Pouched Mouse. 



Size rather small, general form murine. Fur thick and close, 

 but rather harsh, especially anteriorly; underfur abundant, soft, 

 fine, slaty grey, with yellowish tips. General colour grey, strongly 

 suffused with yellow or rufous, paler on the head and forequarters, 

 darker and more orange on the rump and hips. Longer hairs aU 

 black, the yellowish colour proceeding entirely from the tips of the 

 underfur. Ears short and rounded, nearly naked, but their bases 

 generally with tufts of yellowish fur. Chin white ; chest and belly 

 dirty grey, more or less suffused with yellow, the bases of the hairs 

 slate-colour, the tips white or yellow. Limbs like back, but greyer, 

 except that there is generally a well-marked patch of yellow on the 



