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HORN EXPEDITION—MAMMALIA. 
Since the first description was written, and in consequence of an exception¬ 
ally good season in Central Australia, ten more have been captured, for which I 
am indebted to Mr. F. J. Gillen and to Mr. J. hield. 
Though I have received a large collection of marsupials from Charlotte 
Mbiters, yet this species is not included, the reason apparently being that it lives, 
as INIr. Field informs me, under the large rocks on hill-sides, and is therefore 
confined to the hill range country further to the north, where, again, species such 
as Phascologale cnsticauda, which is frequently found burrowing in the stony plains 
around Charlotte Waters, does not seem to occur. 
The native name is Enoonta Latwinna. 
(3) Phascologale caliira, Gould. The lesser brush-tailed pouched mouse. 
This is evidently not a common form in the central district. I am much 
indebted to Mr. F. J. Gillen for an adult male specimen captured at Alice Springs. 
Dimensions, Adult $ (in al.) 
Head and body 
135 mm, 
Tail 
... 147 „ 
Hind-foot, length 
... 24 „ 
,, greatest width 
7 „ 
Ear 
... 23 „ 
Habitat, —South, West, and Central Australia. 
(4) Sminthopsis crassicaudata, Gould. The fat-tailed pouched mouse. 
This is evidently the commonest species of Sminthopsis in the central district. 
It is a burrowing (■?), nocturnal animal, and hence, like most of the smaller 
marsupials, not easy to catch. In all the specimens in my collection the fur is 
soft and fine and the general body colour dark grey. On the palm are four 
granulated elevations at the base of the fingers, on which one of the granulatif)ns 
is larger than the others. On the pollical side is a V-shaped pad, in which, at the 
hinder end of the inner and longer arm of the V, the granulations may not have » 
completely fused ; at the level of the apex of the V, and on the opposite side of the 
palm, is a small round pad. 
The sole has three pads at the base of the toes, without distinctly-striated pads. 
