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9. Fhascologale flavipes. 

 a. Fhascologale flavipes, var. tjrpiea*. 



Phascogale flavipes, Waterh. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 75 ; id. Cat. Mamm. 



Mm. Zool. Soc. _p. 65 (1838) ; id. Jard. Nat. Libr., Mamm. zi. 



p. 138, pi. ix. (animal) (1841) ; €h-ay, Qrey's Austr., App. ii. p. 401 



(1841) ; Wagn. Schr. Sauff. Siepp. ui. p. 37 (1843), v. p. 200 (1855) ; 



Less. N. Tabl. S. A., Mamm. p. 191 (1842) ; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. 



i. p. 494 (1844) ; Gieb. Sdug. p. 728 (1859); Flow. Sf Gars. Cat. 



Ost. Coll. Surg. ii. p. 740 (1884) ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 303 



(1887) ; Coll. Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. 860 (1887). 

 (?) Myrmecobius rufas, Mitch. Exp. Austr. i. p. xvii (1838). 

 Phascogale ruf ogaster, Gray, Grey's Austr., App. ii. p. 407 (1841). 

 Antechinus stuarti, Macleay, Ann. Mag. N. JEC. (1) viii. p. 241, 



pi. vii. (animal) (1841) ; id. t. c. p. 337 (1842) ; Srefft, Austr. Vert. 



Antechinus flavipes. Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 99 (1848) ; Gould, 

 Mamm. Austr. i. pi. il. (animal) (1854); Gerrard, Cat; Bones 

 Mamm. B. M. p. 136 (1862); GouM, Mamm. Austr. Introd. i. 

 p. xxvii (1863) ; Erefft, Cat. Mamm. Austr. Mus. p. 31 (1864) ; 

 id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 432 ; id. Austr. Vert. p. 16 (1871) ; Gray, 

 Voy. Ereb. Terr., Mamm. p. 12 b, pi. xxvi. flg. 2 (animal) (1875) ; 

 Brehm, Thierl. ii. p. 653, fig. (animal) (1880). 



Phascogale (Antechinus) flavipes, Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 415 

 (1846). 



Yellow-footed Pottcheb Mouse. 



Size small or medium, unusually variable ; form stout. Fur 

 close, rather crisp in texture. Underfur abundant, soft and silky, 

 slaty blue with yellow tips. General colour grey, suffused 

 with yellow or rufous. Head and nect clear grey, generally 

 markedly different from the yellow or rufous of the back and 

 rump. Ears rather large, projecting beyond the fur, laid forward 

 (in spirit-specimens) they reach to the anterior canthus of the eye ; 

 naked above, but their hases tufted externally with yeUow or grey. 

 Sides of body, chin, chest, and belly yellow, which sometimes 

 deepens to deep rufous and spreads over the whole body, in- 

 cluding the head (" A. imicolor," Gould), or is, on the other hand, 

 especially in immature specimens, almost obsolete ; bases of belly- 

 hairs always dark slaty grey ; pouch-hairs red, yellow, or white. 

 Limbs and feet more or less like belly. Palms and soles naked, 

 each with six pads; the poUioal and haUucal both, as a rule, 

 divided ; claws small and delicate, usually only surpassing the tips 

 of the toes by from 1\ to 2 mUlim. Tail uniformly short-haired 

 throughout, the hairs just hiding the scales, brown or yellow 

 above, paler below, the terminal inch sometimes black. MammsB 8. 



Skull stout, broad, and flattened, with a short conical muzzle. 



* a. Belly and inner sides of limbs more or less 



yellow. — Hob. Eastern Australia Var. flavipes. 



b. Belly and inner sides of limbs wbite. — Hab. 



Western and North-western Australia Var. leucogasfer, p. 291. 



