THE HOARY PHALANGER. 
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Inches. Lines. 
Total length of skull ... ... .. 2 
“ width ... ... ... . 1 4$ 
44 “ between orbits . 3i 
Length of nasal bones . ... 10£ 
Width of ditto at the base . 5 
41 near the apex . 3 
Length of palate to the anterior margin of the 
great palatine opening ... ... ... 
From front of foremost incisor to principal 
premolar ... .. 6| 
Length of the principal premolar and four true 
molars taken together . ... 8J 
Phalangista Bougain viHii. 
Phalanger de Bougainville. Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 1829, p. 183. 
Phalangista Bougainvillii. Wagner, in Schreb. Saug. 111-112 Heft, 
p. 82. 1842. 
Size of a squirrel : upper parts of tlie body ash-coloured, under 
parts white; the posterior half of the tail black, and the 
hinder half of the ear white. 
The above short description is from Cuvier, who states 
that the specimen from which it is taken was brought home 
by the Boron Bougainville in his last voyage. I strongly 
suspect it will prove to be the P. Cookii. 
PHALANGISTA ( Pseudochirus) CANESCENS. 
The Hoary Phalanger. 
Phalanger grisonannt. Humbron et Jacquinot, Voyage au Pole Sud, &c. 
Zoologie—Mammiferes, PI. 16. 
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Ears very small: two inner toes of the fore foot distinctly oppo¬ 
sable to the other three ; thumb of hind foot directed back- 
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