CATALOGUE OP MAMMALS FROM NEW GUINEA. 3 



Order FERjE. 

 Tribe Viverrina. 



Fam. Felid^e. 



Paradoxurus hermaphrodita. 



Viverra nigra, Desm. Mam. 

 Viverra hermaphrodita, Pallas. 



Paradoxurus typus, F. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. ; Temm.' Monog. ii. 

 315 ; Gray, List Mam. B.M. 56. 



Platyehista Pallasii, Otto, Nov. Act. Leop. xvii. t. 71, 72. 

 Paradoxurus hermaphrodita, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858. 

 Hab. K& Islands {Wallace), 

 a. Ke Islands. 



Fam. Macropodid.e. 



a. Phalangistina. 

 Belideus Ariel. 



Belidea Ariel, Goiald, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1842, x. 1 1 ; Ann. & Mag. 

 N. H. 1842, 404 ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858. 

 Petaurus sciureus, Mullei 1 , Verhand. tabl. 

 Petaurus Ariel, Gray, List Mam. B.M. 84. 

 Hab. Aru Island (Wallace) ; Port Essington (Grould). 

 a. Female adult, with one young in the pouch. Aru Island. 



Cuscus. 



Herr Temminck, in the first volume of the ' Monographies de 

 Mammalogie,' published in 1827, divides the short hairy-eared kinds, 

 Cusci, into three species. 



At the time he wrote he only had specimens from the northern 

 part of Celebes, brought home by Professor Reinhardt, and from 

 the islands of Banda and Amboyna. 



These species evidently depend principally on the colour of the 

 fur, which appears to be very variable in different individuals. It is 

 true that he describes and figures skulls of the different individuals ; 

 but the difference between those of Phalangista chrysorrhos and P. 

 maculata appears chiefly to depend on the age and development of 

 the specimen figured. M. Temminck and the writers of his school 

 always forget that the skull and other parts of the skeleton are 

 liable to quite as much' variation from local circumstances, food, 

 and other accidental causes, as the colour of the fur or the size of 

 the animal. M. Temminck characterizes them thus : — 



1. In Phalangista ursina the fur is thicker and closer, and the 

 long hairs thicker than in the other species, blackish, with yellow 

 tips to the longer hairs ; and the forehead of the skull is flat. Of this 

 he had several specimens of different ages, all brought by Professor 



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