GILBERT S HYPSIPUYMNUS. 
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HYPS1PRYMNUS (Potorow) GILBERTI1. 
Gilbert's Hypsiprymnua. 
Hypriprymnus Gilbcrtu, Gould, Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 
February, 1811, Part ix. p. 11; Monograph of 
the Mneropodidn*, Part i. Plate 15. 
Hypsiprymnus micropux 1 (Gould's MSS.) Watkrii. Naturalist’s Library, 
Marsupialia, p. 180. 
Furlong, loose, ami rather harsh : general colour deep greyish 
brown; upper parts of body pencilled with black and rusty 
white, or yellowish white; under parts dirty white ; feet 
brown: skull with the facial portion broad, the outer surface 
of the superior maxillary' bones being very convex.—Skull, 
Plate 8, lig. 1. 
Inhabits King George’s Sound. 
Skins, or stuffed specimens, of this animal, are difficult to 
distinguish from the Hypsijprynmus murinu*; the form of 
the head, however, must be different in the living animal. 
The fur is perhaps rather more harsh, and more distinctly 
pencilled with yellowish or rusty white: on the back die 
hairs of the fur are of a slate grey colour, and rusty brown 
externally; die longer and harsher hairs, which are abun¬ 
dant, have the basal halt slate grey, and the remaining por¬ 
tion first white, slightly tinted with yellowish rust colour, and 
then black : some of the interspersed longer lmirs have the 
1 Mr. Gould first determined to give the name micropus to this species; 
and when he afterwards applied tliat of Gilbertii , 1 had no opportunity of 
altering the former name, which I had adopted in the little volume on 
Marsupialia, in the Naturalist's Library. There can be no question about the 
priority, however, since Uie part of the Proceedings containing Mr. Gould's 
description was published before the Naturalist's Library volume referred to, 
which did not appear till August, 1841. 
