YELLOW-RUMPED PIIALANOKR. 
271 
Inches. Lines. 
Total length of skull . ? * 
Width . ,..2 2 
Length of nasal bones . . 1 34 
Width of ditto behind ..0 GJ 
11 44 in front .. 0 G 
Length of palate to the posterior palatine 
opening ... ... ..1 0} 
** principal premolar and four 
true molars, Liken together 1 2) 
44 lower jaw ... ... ... 2 7 
Height of do. from apex of coronoid process 1 I 
Depth of ditto beneath the second true 
molar .. .0 6£ 
Inches. Lines. 
3 14 
i 104 
1 oj 
0 G 
0 44 
0 114 
> 
2 21 
> 
0 5 
Ursine Phalangers, according to M. Temminck. are very 
numerous in the dense woods of the southern parts of the 
Island of Celebes- The inhabitants of that island are ac¬ 
quainted with no varieties of this animal: it is said to eat 
flesh. These Phalangers are seen but little during the day. at 
which time they squat on die branches of the trees, and are 
hidden by the foliage. 
With regard to these Phalangers eating flesh, I must ob¬ 
serve, that this is not likely to be their ordinary food. We 
know that other Phalangers feed chiefly upou vegetable sub¬ 
stances, though they do not refuse flesh, at least when in con¬ 
finement. 
PHALANGISTA (Cuscus) CHRYSORRHOS. 
Yellow-rumped Phahmger. 
Phalanghta chrysorrhos. Temminck, Monographics de Maramalogie, t. i. 
p. 12. 
Wagner, in Scbreb. Saug. 109-110 Heft, p. 70. 
Fur short, dense, and of a cotton-like texture; general colour 
ashy grey, somewhat suffused with black on the back, and 
* According to the proportions of other skulls of P. urstina , the length of 
this one should be 3" T" : the back part is broken in this specimen. 
