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PHALANGISTA OR1ENTAL1S. 
This species is equal to the Common llabbit in size: its 
fur is rather short, dense, moderately soft, and has a slight 
silky lustre. The male specimens are perfectly white, even 
when young, but in aged individuals the fur is somewhat 
tinted with yellowish ; the naked portions of the tail, and of 
the feet, ears, and muzzle, are of a livid white hue, and so 
are the nails. The females vary considerably in tint, but 
may be always distinguished by a dark bund, which, com¬ 
mencing on the forehead, runs along the back, and terminates 
before reaching the tail. This band is generally of a ehesnut 
brown colour. In adult, females the fur varies, according to 
Temminck, from yellowish brown to nut brown, or to grey 
brown, more or less mixed with ash colour. In the young 
female, the fur is more or less tinted with rust colour, but 
is slightly suffused with ashy grey, and sometimes is silvery 
or whitish. The chin, and the whole of the under parts of 
the body, as well as the inner surface of the limbs, are white, 
slightly tinted with pale grey; the region of the pouch is 
rust coloured; the naked portion of the tail is yellowish in 
the adult, and whitish in the young. 
The ears in the P . orientalis ore not hidden by the fur of 
the head, as in other species of the Guscus section, and they 
differ, moreover, in being naked on the inner side. The fore¬ 
head is concave—rendered so partly by the prominence of the 
two temporal crests. The tail is about equal to the bodv in 
length. In full-grown animals the head and body together 
measure about 21-i inches in length, and the tail is about 15} 
inches. I hey rarely attain the total length of three feet three 
inches (tail included), according to AI. Temminck. The 
females are rather smaller than the inales, the largest being 
about 02 inches in length. 
Besides the ordinary well-developed teeth, there is a verv 
small tooth 011 each sido of the upper jaw, situated imme¬ 
diately in front ol the principal premolar, and the large 
