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PIi ALAN GI ST A CAN IN A. 
Short-eared Phalonger. 
Phalangista canina. Ogildy, Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 
December, 1836, Part 3, p. 191. 
Above deep grey, beneath white, faintly tinted with yellowish; 
muzzle brown; sides of chin dusky ; ears short, dusky at the 
base externally; tail bushy, black, excepting at the base, 
where it is coloured like the body ; feet blackish. 
Inhabits the interior of New South Wales. 
This animal is about the same size as the Phalangista 
vulj)ina 3 to which it bears a considerable resemblance; it may, 
however, be readily distinguished by its comparatively short 
ears; these are rounded, nearly naked internally, and exter¬ 
nally furnished at the base with fur of the same kind as that 
on the head, and of a blackish hue, but towards the posterior 
margin the hairs are whitish : the tail is very bushy, and 
nearly equal to the body in length : the fur of the animal is 
long, dense, and somewhat woolly, and its general hue is grey, 
it being rather finely pencilled with black and white; on the 
under parts of the body the fur is white, but each hair on 
these parts is indistinctly suffused with yellow externally, and 
is greyish next the skin; on the chest is a narrow rusty brown 
mark ; the muzzle is dusky, and the eye is surrounded bv 
the same dark hue; the feet are blackish ; a small portion of 
the tail at the base is coloured like the body; the thick 
bushy hairs on the remaining portion are black; the apical 
third of the tail beneath, and the extreme point, arc naked; 
the hairs of the moustaches are black, and the claws are pale 
horn colour. 
