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VERTEBRATA. 
THE SPOTTED PHALANGER OR COUSCOUS. 
thumb on the hincl-feet, and are found partly in Australia and partly in the Malasian Islands. It 
includes the Whatapooroo or Vulpine Opossum, the Phalayiger Benard of the French, P. 
vulpina, resembling a fox in shape, the body twenty-six inches long and the tail fifteen, the latter 
j)reh ensile, but covered with hair; the upper parts a grizly-ycllow and the under parts tawny-buff; 
on the fore-feet, five toes and on the hind ones four, the feet, as in many of the opossums, serving 
the purposes of a hand. This species is found in Australia, near Port Jackson, 
The Spotted Phalanger, P. maculata^ is found in the Moluccas, and especially in Amboyna, 
where it is called Couscous by the natives. It is also met with at Wagiou, where the inhabi- 
tants call it Scham-Scham. Its fur is white, spotted with brown and black. The Red Phalan&er, 
P, cavifrons, is found in Amboyna and Banda. The Goldek-rumped Phalanger is also found 
at Amboyna ; the P. ursina is found in Celebes. 
THE SUGAR SQCIREEL. 
Genus PETATJRUS : Peiaurus. — The Petauristines, sometimes called Flying Phalangers, are 
divided by some naturalists into several genera, but we shall include them in one. To this belongs 
the Sugar Squirrel or Norfolk Island Flying-Squirrel, P. scmreus, which is about as large 
as our red squirrel ; the tail rather longer than the body ; the fur soft and beautiful ; the color gray 
