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Zoological Society of London. 
though short, are longer, more numerous and much less harsh 
than is usual in the true Rats ; on the sides and under part of the 
tail they are pure white, and on the upper surface some are white 
and others blackish, but chiefly white on the apical portion ; sides 
of the muzzle white; hairs of the moustaches moderate, black at 
the root, but greyish at the point. 
Podabrus macrourus. Pod. cinereus nigro penicillatus; 
lateribus corporis flavescentibus, guld, abdomine pedibusque 
albis; capite suprd lined nigrd longiludinali notato; oculis 
nigro cinctis; auribus mediocribus intus pilis fiavis, extus 
nigrescentibus obsitis; caudd crassissimd ad apicem atte- 
nuatd, pilis minutis, suprd nigro fiavoque variegatis, subtiis 
albescentibus, vestitd. 
unc. lin. 
Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caudce basin .... 3 9 
caudee . 3 2 
ab apice rostri ad basin auris. X 0£ 
auris . 0 5 
tarsi digitorumque . 0 8£ 
Hab. Open Plains, Darling Downs, New South Wales. 
Fur very soft, and both on the upper and under parts of the 
body of a slate-grey colour next the skin; general hue of the upper 
parts of the body ashy grey, much pencilled with black; on the 
sides of the body there is but little of the black pencilling, and 
hence the general hue is paler; and on these parts, as well as on 
the sides of the head, is a faint yellow tint; under parts of the 
body white, very indistinctly suflfused with yellow on the mesial 
portion of the abdomen; between the white of the under parts 
and the greyish hue of the sides of the body is a narrowish space 
of an almost uniform pale yellow hue, and the same tint is ob¬ 
servable on the outer side of the legs; feet white, obscurely tinted 
with pale yellow; on the upper surface of the head is a mark, 
narrow on the muzzle, but becoming expanded behind, which is 
almost entirely black, and immediately around the eyes the hairs 
are also black ; ears of moderate size, their posterior margin 
nearly straight, clothed internally with small pale yellowish, and 
externally with black hairs, excepting on the hinder part, where 
they arc pale; tail very thick at the base (about 3$ lines in dia- 
