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PHALANGISTA VULPINA. 
must observe, that the iris of the eye was of so chirk a colour, 
that l could scarcely distinguish the pupil from that part. 
In Cuscus the iris is of an orange colour, or red. 
PHALANGISTA (: Tri&osurti*) VULPINA. 
The Vulpine Phalanger. 
(Plate 9, fig. 1.) 
DUlelphis rulpina. Shaw, General Zoology, vol. i. Pari 2, p. 503. 1800. 
4 ‘ lemurina • Shaw, 1. c. p. 487, PI. 110. 
Phalangista vulpina. Dksm. Nouv. Diet, (l'llist. Nat. tom. xxv. p. 475 
(1817); Mam inn logic, Parti, p.267. 1820. 
tl Temminck, Monographies tie Mammalogie, tom. i. 
p. 5. 1827/ 
Phalangista melanura. Wagner, in Schreb. Snug. SuppL 111-112 Heft, 
p. 81. 1842. 
fuliginosa . Ogiluy, Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 
September, 1831, p. 135. 
Citticri (Gray). Waterhouse, in Naturalists* Library; Mar- 
supialia, p. 268. 1841. 
felina . Wagner, in Schreb. S.iug. Suppl. 109-110 Heft, 
p. 76. 1842. 
Phalanger de Cook. 
Vulpine Op os turn. 
Wha Tapoa Roo. 
F. Cuvier et Geotk. hlammifercs, Plate 45. 1824. 
Phillip, Voyage to Botany Bay, p. 150, PI. 16. 1789. 
V Hite, Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, 
p.278, and Plate. 179U. 
Fur long; general colour grey: under parts of body pale yellow, 
or yellowish white: muzzle and chin blackish: ears nearly 
naked on the inner side, having but a few scattered pale 
hairs ; externally' well clothed, excepting at the point, with 
whitish hairs, but with a large black patch at the base: feet 
yellowish, more or less suffused with brown: tail bushy, 
black, excepting at the base; the apical third naked be¬ 
neath : chest almost always with an oblong patch of deep 
rust-colourcd hairs. 
Inhabits New South Wales, Western Australia, and North 
Australia. 
