200 
PIIA LAN GI ST A ( Pmulochirus) COOKIL 
Cook s Phalanger. 
Phalangista Cookii . 
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*• viverrina. 
M Banksii. 
Phalanger de Cook . 
? Phalanger de Bougainville. 
New Holland Opossum. 
White-tailed Opossum. 
Ring-tailed Ojwssum of the 
Desmeiiest, Nouy. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. sxv. 
p. 478. 1817. 
Temm. Monogr. de Mamm. tom. i. p. 
Ogilby, Proceedings of the Zoological Society 
for Nov. 1837, Part 5, p. 131. 
Gray, Annals of Natural llist. for April, 1838. 
vol. i. p. 107. 
Cutter, Regnc Animal, tom. i. p. 179,ed. 1817; 
tom. i. p. 183, cd. 1829. 
Cuvier, Kcguc Animal (1829), p. 183. 
Pennant, llist. of Quad. vol. ii. p. 301. 1781. 
Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. i. Part 2, p. 504. 1800. 
Colonists. 
Fur long anil soft : upper parts of body grey ; flanks, and outer 
surface of limbs, suffused with bright rust-colour ; under 
