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' Long-tailed Squirrel' of colonists. 
Hab. N. S. Wales. 
A. Specimen (in bad order). 
568. B. sciUREUS (Gould's Mamm, Austr., pi I, pi. 4.) 
Syn. Didelphis schirea, Shaw. 
^ Sugar Squirrel' of colonists. 
Hab. N. S. Wales. 
A. Stuffed specimen. Presented bv Mrs. 
Major Turnbull, in 1860, (/. A. S. XXIX, 70). 
Genus Acrobat a, Desmarest. 
569. Ace. pygm^A (Nat Libr. Marsup., pi. 30). 
Syn. Didelphis pycfmcea^ Shaw. * 
' Flying Mouse' of colonists. 
Hab. N. S. Wales. 
A. Specimen. Presented by the Sydney 
Institution (1846). 
Fam. MACROPODIDiE. 
Genus Macropus, Shaw. 
570. M. GTGANTEUS, i^Gould's Monograph, pi. I). 
Syn. Yerhua gigantea^ Zimmerman. 
Didelphis gigaiitea, Schreber. 
M, major, Shaw. 
M. ocydromus et M. melanops, Gould. 
Kangarus labiatus, Desmarest. 
Halmaturus griseofuscus, Goldfuss. 
* Boomer' and ' Forester' of the colonists. 
Hab. E. S. and W. Australia; Tasmania. 
A. B. Stuffed specimens of adults. Pre- 
sented by the Melbourne Institution in 1862, 
as M. major and M. ocydromus. C. Ditto, 
younsc male, from the Barrackpore Menagerie, 
(1847^). D. Skeleton of last. E. Skull of a 
larger individual. Presented by Dr. Wallich, 
(As. Res. XII, App. XXVli). F. Young 
in spirit. 
