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River district are frequently very dark: three out of six, 
which are before me, are almost black on the upper parts of 
the body, but slightly inclining to grey: the under parts are 
white, and the muzzle and feet are sooty black. One specimen 
is brown, slightly suffused with reddish; the body beneath 
white, tinted with yellow in parts; the feet deep brown. The 
remaining two are of a pale grey hue on the upper parts of 
the body, and yellowish white beneath ; in one of these 
specimens the feet are very pale, inclining to white; in the 
other they are brown. 
As presenting the most general features of the Yan Diemen’s 
Land specimens, I will describe the specimen in the Zoolo¬ 
gical Society's collection , which has already been referred to, 
being the original of the 
Fhalangista viverrina. Ogilby. 
General colour sooty-grey, the dark fur slightly pencilled with 
whitish on the head and fore parts of the body of the animal, 
and with brown on the hinder parts ; chin, throat, and 
abdomen, yellowish white : muzzle dusky brown ; cheeks 
paler than on the upper parts of the head, and with a whitish 
spot situated a little behind the eye: the dense fur on the 
back of the car black, excepting at the posterior margin and 
hinder angle, where it is white: outer surface of the limbs 
rusty brown; feet black: tail brown-black, finely pencilled 
with pale brown, of a brownish rust colour at the root, and 
with the apical third white, excepting on the under surface, 
where it is naked. 
A second specimen, in the same collection, is worthy of 
notice, differing from the one just described in having the 
general hue rather darker; the tail black, but with the apical 
third white; the abdomen grey; the chest white, and a broad 
white mark extending from the chest to the middle of the 
abdomen; the chin is dusky at the sides. 
In the British Museum collection are five specimens from 
Van Diemen’s Land, in which the general hue of the fur is 
