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HORN EXPEDITION—MAMMALIA. 
Maiiinue six ; three on each side. 
Fur cuuiposed of larger coarse hairs ; the lower half slate-grey, tlie upper half 
dark brown and projecting beyond the under-fur. 
Under-fur composed of liner hairs, slate-grey in their lower half, merging into 
lighter grey and then light brown at the extremity. 
On the tail all the hairs are stiff, the majority being light brown; a smaller 
number scattered about are dark brown at the base, succeeded by a lighter band 
and then by a dark tip. 
Under the jaw the hairs are white, with a dark brown basal portion; the 
hairs not being very close together, the dark bases show clearly. On and behind 
the pectoral region ventrally the hairs (under-fur) are close together j all are slate- 
grey in the proximal and white in the distal half, giving a general grey appearance, 
which merges into brown at the sides of the body. 
Dimensions. 
(«) 
Adult ? 
in al. 
iV) 
Adult $ 
in al. 
(«) 
Adult $ 
in al. 
(d) 
Adult d 
in al. 
(c) 
Adult ? 
in al. 
Head and Body - 
- 
- 
92 
102 
120 
104 
90 
Tail 
- 
- 
77 
70 
74 
72 
71 
Hind-foot, length 
- 
- 
14 
14 
15 
15 
14 
„ „ greatest width 
- 
4 
4-2 
5 
4 
5*2 
Ear 
• 
- 
13 
13 
12-5 
12 
11-2 
Dentition i. 
1.2.3.4 
TO" 
p.ni. 
1.0.3.4 1.2.3.4 
ITO.3./ 1.2.3.4 
In the upper jaw p'^ is either absent or very minute in each of thirteen 
specimens examined ; in the lower jaw it is apparently almost always absent. 
In only one specimen {d') is it present, and here it is A^ery minute, and only 
visible on the right side. It is evidently almost entirely lost, but its presence in 
this one instance will serve to show the danger of regarding its total absence as 
determined in a given species until a fair number of specimens have been examined. 
It is of course possible that it may be yet found in Phascologale cristicauda and 
