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PH ALAN GIST A ( Dromicia) NANA. 
Dormouse Phalanger. 
Phalangista nana (Geoff.) DESMARE9T,in Nouv. Dict.d'Hist. Nat. tom.xxv. 
p. 470. Mammalogie, Pt. 1, p. 268. 
“ gliriformis . Bell, Transactions of the Linncean Society, 
vol. xvi. p. 121, PI. 13. 
“ nana (Geoff.) Waterhouse, Naturalists' Library, Marsupialia, 
p. 279. 
Dromicia gliriformis. Gray, in List of the Mammalia in the British 
Museum, 1843, p. S5. 
«* “ Gould, Mammals of Australia, PI. 8. 
Fur very soft, and moderately long; general colour ashy grey, 
suffused with pale reddish brown; under parts white, tinted 
with rusty yellow on the chest; hind feet white; fore feet 
grey; ears large; head rather paler than the body, dusky 
round the eye; tail very thick at the base, where it is clothed 
with fur like that of the body; the remaining portions very 
scantily clothed. 
Inhabits Van Diemen’s Land. 
I had the pleasure, a short time since, of examining three 
. or four living specimens of this interesting little animal in 
the menagerie of the Zoological Society. Very fat, and 
sluggish—during the day-time at least. I was struck with 
their resemblance to the Dormouse, but, as Mr. Bell correctly 
observes, they are broader, more depressed, and larger. That 
gentleman s accurate description, made from living specimens, 
I cannot improve, and shall therefore give in his own w r ords— 
omitting only some few of the less important parts. “ The 
x head is broad across the ears, from whence it tapers to 
the nose, which is somewhat pointed ; the nostrils are 
narrow, and of a semicircular form ; the upper jaw, which is 
elongated, overhangs the under, and almost entirely conceals 
it; the eyes are very large, remarkably prominent, and of a 
