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CATALOGUE OP MAMMALS FROM NEW GUINEA. 



of the body rather greyish from the dark colour of the base of 

 the fur on that part of the body; the tip of the tail whitish, 

 and the under part of the upper surface near the tip, with a nar- 

 row streak ending some way down the middle of the under side 

 of the tail, black ; the under side of the tip of the tail is bald, 

 but scarcely callous ; the feet flesh-coloured, with few scattered short 

 whitish hairs ; the ears nakedish, black when dry. 



Hah. Aru Island {Wallace). 



a. A female. Aru_ Island : lives on fruit. " Teeth ~." — Wal- 



Order CETE. 

 Fam. Halicorid^e. 

 Halicore Australis. 



Halicore Australis, Owen in Jukes's Voyage* of the Fly, ii. 323. 

 f. 135, 1847; Gray, Voy. Samarang, 33; Fairholme, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1856, 352. 



Hah. Timor Straits. 



Order UNGULATA. 

 Fam. ElephantiDjE. 

 The Bene. 



Sus Papuensis. 



Sus Papuensis, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, t. 8 ; Muller, Verh. t. ; 

 Gray, List Mam. B.M. 185. 

 Hah. New Guinea (Lesson). Called ' Bene.' 

 a. Adult male. New Guinea. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



List of Mammalia of New Guinea and neighbouring countries. 



** indicates that there is a specimen of the species in the Museum for the 

 locality indicated. 



Macacus Cynomolgos 



niger 



Tarsius spectrum 



Pteropus edulis 



funereus 



Alecto 



Chrysoproctus 



Macklotii 



argentatus 



person at us 



