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14. Perameles Bougainvillei, Quay et Gaim. 
Perameles Bougainvillei, Quoy et Gaim. Zool. du Voy. de l’Uranie, p. 56, tab. 5, et Bull, des Sci. Nat. 1824, 
tom. i. p. 270 ; Waterh. Nat. Hist, of Mamm. vol. i. p. 385. 
Habitat. Peron’s Peninsula; in Shark Bay, Western Australia. 
Having never seen a specimen of this animal, I am unable to figure it, or to say if it be a good species. 
Genus Phascolarctos, De Blainv. 
15. Phascolarctos cinereus 
Habitat. New South Wales. 
Genus Phalangista, Cue. 
Vol. I. Pis. 13 & 14. 
16. Phalangista fuliginosa, Ogilby Vol. I. PI. 15. 
Habitat. Van Diemen’s Land. Victoria? 
In one of the letters from my son Charles, now engaged on a geological survey of Tasmania, the following 
passage having reference to this animal occurs : — 
“ I lay down, looking up at the moon and stars, thinking of home, and dreamily listening to the crackling of 
the fire, when a diabolical, chattering, grunting laugh overhead makes me start up, and discover that a Sooty 
Opossum is making an inspection of me, with comments, from the branch above ; his call is responded to by 
others, and a kind of concert commences, which is maintained at intervals throughout the night, — the smaller or 
Ring-tailed Opossums performing an active part in it also, and the ‘ More Pork ’ (JPodargus Cuvier i) lending a 
little lugubrious assistance occasionally.” 
17. Phalangista vulpina, Desm. . . . . . • • • • ■ 
Phalangista melanura, Wagn., Waterh. Nat. Hist, of Mamm. vol. i. p. 288. 
felina, Wagn., Waterh. ib. p. 294. 
Go'6-mal, aborigines of Western Australia. 
Habitat. Probably every part of Australia ; certainly all its southern portions. 
18. Phalangista canina, Ogilby .......... 
Habitat. New South Wales. 
Vol. I. PL 16. 
Vol. I. PI. 17. 
19. Phalangista Cookii, Desm. Vol. I. PI. 18. 
Ngo-ra, aborigines of Perth. 
Ngork, aborigines of King George’s Sound. 
“This species,” says Mr. Gilbert, “ does not confine itself to the hollows of standing or growing trees, but is 
often found in holes in the ground, where the entrance is covered with a stump ; it is frequently hunted out of such 
places by the Kangaroo-dogs. It varies very much in the colour of the fur, from a very light grey to nearly a 
black ; in one instance I caught two, from the same hole, which exhibited the extremes of these colours.” 
Habitat. New South Wales. 
20. Phalangista viverrina, Ogilby Vol. I. PI. 19. 
Habitat. Van Diemen’s Land and Western Australia. 
21. Phalangista laniginosa, Gould . . . . . . . . . . . . Vol. I. PI. 20. 
Habitat. New South Wales. 
Genus Cuscus, Lacep. 
22. Cuscus brevicaudatus, Gray 
Habitat. The Cape York district. 
Vol. I. PL 21. 
