THE URSINE PH AI. ANGER. 
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The animals belonging to this section are of moderate size 
(being for the most part about equal to the domestic cat, in 
this respect), have the fur dense, and of a more or less woolly 
nature: similar fur covers a portion of the tail, but usually 
about half the tail is destitute of hair, and preseuts numerous 
fleshy tubercles. The species of Cuscus are inhabitants of 
certain islands in the Indian Archipelago, and, indeed, arc 
confined, so far as we know, to the islands of Celebes, 
Amboyna, Banda, Waigiou, Timor, New Guinea, and New 
Ireland. 
PHALANGISTA (Cuscus) URSINA. 
The Ursine Phulanger. 
Phalangista ursina. Trmminck, Monographies tie Mammalogie, t. i. p. 10. 
Skull of the adult, PI. 1, figs. 1, 2, and 3; skull of 
a specimen of intermediate age, PI. 2, figs. 1 to 5; 
skeleton, PI. 4. 
“ “ Wagner, in Schreb. Saug. 109-110 Heft, p. G9. 
Rather larger than the domestic cat: fur of moderate length, 
dense, and woolly: general colour black, freckled with 
yellow; head chiefly of the latter colour; under parts of 
body yellow : ears densely clothed, the hairs yellow, except¬ 
ing at the base externally, where they are black, and more or 
less pencilled with yellow. 
Messrs. Lesson nndGamot 1 make two minor divisions of 
the Cuscus group: the first, characterised by the ears being 
very short, almost hidden by the fur, and well clothed inter¬ 
nally, includes the present species, together with the Cuscus 
chrysorrlm , C.maculatus, and C. macro urns; the second 
division includes hut one species, C. orientalis , in which the 
1 Sec Voyage de la CoquiUe. Zoologie, p. I5U. 
