THE VULPINE PHALANGRH. 
291 
Upon comparing the skins or stuffed specimens of this 
Van Diemen’s Land Phalanger, with those of the P. vulpina 
of New South Wales, the only tolerably constant difference I 
could perceive was, that the Island animal was rather larger 
than that of the main land; and two skulls, contained in tho 
Museum of tho College of Surgeons, and known to be from 
Van Diemen’s Land specimens, presented a corresponding 
difference of size when compared with the crania of the 
P. vulpina. I could find no sensible difference of proportion 
in these skulls, hut the dimensions in the next page will speak 
for themselves. 
Zoological 
Society. 
British 
Museum. 
British Zooloirical 
Museum. Society. 
Length from the tip of the nose 
Ins. Lines. 
Ins. Lines. 
Ins. Lines. Ins. Lines. 
1 
to the root of the tail... 
22 
0 
22 
0 
18 
6 
22 0 
44 of tail . 
13 
0 
14 
0 
12 
0 
13 0 
14 from nose to ear 
3 
11 
3 
8 
3 
4 
44 of ear .. ... 
2 
1 
2 
0 
2 
0 
2 2 
44 of hind foot and claws ... 
3 
5 
3 
6 
2 
8 
3 4 
44 of fore foot and claws ... 
2 
7 
2 
7 
2 
0 
Width of three upper incisors 
taken together . 
4 
