MAMMALIA. 



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Mammalia not belonging to the order Marsupiata are rare in the Continent of 

 Australia. Besides the Dog, we are acquainted with none excepting a few species 

 of Rodents, and these all belong to the family Muridce. 



The present animal adds one to the limited number already known : in 

 the Museum of the Zoological Society there is another species, the characters of 

 which I will point out in the next description. 



Musfuscipes is remarkable for the great length and softness of its fur, and 

 the brown colour of its feet : it is rather less than Mus Rattus, and of a stouter 

 form. Not having had an opportunity of examining the molar teeth and the 

 cranium of this animal, I cannot be positive that it is a species of the genus Mus.; 

 in external characters and the form of the incisor teeth, however, it agrees per- 

 fectly with the animals of that genus. 



" This animal was caught in a trap baited with cheese, amongst the bushes 

 at King George's Sound." — D. 



28, Mus Gouldii. 



M. vellere longo, molli, ochraceo, pilis nigricantibus adsperso, Ms ad latera rariori- 

 bus : corpore subliis, pedibusque albis : auribus majiisculis : caudd, capite corporeque 

 paulo breviore. 



Description. — Ears rather large and slightly pointed, tarsi slender and tolerably 

 long ; tail about equal in length to the body and half the head ; fur long and 

 soft ; general colour pale ochreous yellow ; on the back there are numerous 

 long black hairs interspersed with the ordinary fur, which gives a darker hue 

 and somewhat variegated appearance to that part; feet, chin, throat, and the 

 whole under-parts of the body white ; ears brown, sparingly clothed with 

 minute yellow hairs, both externally (excepting on the forepart, where they 

 are brownish) and internally ; tail brownish above, and yellowish white be- 

 neath ; the hairs of the moustaches long, and of a brown colour ; upper in- 

 cisors deep orange, lower incisors yellow ; claws white. The hair of the back 

 is of a deep lead colour at the base, pale ochre near the apex, and dusky at 

 the apex ; the longer hairs are black ; the hairs of the belly are deep gray at 

 the base and broadly tipped with white. 



In. Lines. 

 Length from nose to root of tail . .48 



of tail . . . . .36 



from nose to ear . . . 1 OJ 



In. Lines. 



Length of tarsus (claws included) . l oi 



of ear . . . .07 



Var. /3.— General colour of the fur pale ochreous yellow, the feet, under side of 

 the tail and the whole of the under parts, as well as the lower portion of the 



