MURIDAE RECORDED FROM VICTORIA 
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Size small. General colour about buffy-brown, pencilled with darker hairs 
on the back. Dorsal fur (9 to 10 mm.) slate for three-fourths of its length, 
then wood-brown with lighter tips. Long black hairs numerous. Sides of 
body and outer sides of limbs lighter; sharply demarcated from ventral 
colouration. Ventral surface soiled buffy-white; fur basally grey for half 
its length, the tint being lighter on the throat and chest than on the lower 
part of the body, then tipped with whitish. Head as body; cheeks lighter, 
upper lip white. Mysticial vibrissae dense, long, black with a few anterior 
hairs white. Ears long, oval in outline; inner surface nearly naked, outer 
surface clothed with dark-brown adpressed hair. Tail about as long as head 
and body ; white below except towards the tip where it is uniformly brown ; 
clothed with stiff hairs which are not numerous enough to hide scales (15 to 
centimetre). Manus and pes buffy-white; sparsely covered with white 
adpressed hair which barely hides the skin. 
Skull . — All available skulls have the occipital region cut away. The brain- 
case is smooth and rounded and the anterior edge of the zygomatic plate is 
almost vertical and very slightly concave. 
Teeth . — Laminae somewhat tilted. First molar with an anterio-internal 
cingular cusp which in some specimens is more developed than in others. 
Dimensions of Skin . — Head and body, 68 mm. ; tail, 69 mm. ; hind foot, 
18 mm.; ear, 15 mm. 
Dimensions of Skull . — Back of parietals to tip of nasals, 20 mm. ; nasals, 
7 8 X 2 mm.; interorbital breadth, 3 8 mm.; palate length, 12 mm.; palatal 
foramina, 4-3 mm. ; breadth inside M 2 , 2 5 mm. ; breadth outside M 2 , 5 mm. ; 
diastema, 5 5 mm.; upper molars, 3-5 mm. 
Type Locality . — Upper Hunter River, New South Wales. 
This is another species which has not been recorded from 
this State since the Blandowski expedition in 1857. Evidently 
at this time it was common, for more than 30 specimens 
were collected. Little is known of its habits, but Gould said : 
“I usually found this species among stones, or under flat slabs of bark 
left by the Aborigines at their encampments.” 
Subgenus Gyomys. 
Size small. Skull as in Leggadina. Molars quite normal ; 
no anterio-internal cusp on M 1 , and molar laminae of the usual 
murine shape and position. 
Pseudomys ( Gyomys ) fumeus Brazenor. 
Pseudomys (Gyomys) fumeus Brazenor, Mem. Nat. Mus. Melb., No. 8, 
p. 158, 1934. 
Only two specimens of the Smoky Mouse are known. Both 
were taken in one restricted locality near Beech Forest, in the 
Otway Ranges, and both are males. 
General colour quaker-drab, a little darker on the mid-dorsal line. Dorsal 
fur long (15 mm.), soft, fine; slate grey for four-fifths of length, tipped with 
mouse grey. Long hairs (20 mm.) numerous; black, imparting a cool tone 
