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PETAURUS ( Petaurhta) TAGUANOIDES. 
Taguan Flying-Plmlanger. 
Petaurus taguanoides. 
Pe tourist a 44 
44 Peronii. 
Petaurus taguanoides . 
Dksmarkst, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., tom. xxv. 
p. -100. 1818. 
Desmarkst, Mammalogie, Pt. 1, p. 2G9. 1820. 
Desmauest. Nouv. Diet, d'llist. Nat., tom. xxv. 
p. 400. 
Waterhouse, Marsupialia, p 283, PL 27. 
Ears rather short, very broad, and densely clothed with fur ou 
the outer side, like that of the head; tail cylindrical, longer 
than the head and body taken together: fur very long and 
soft; its general colour on the upper parts of the body brown- 
black ; on the flank membranes pencilled with whitish: 
throat, as well as the under parts of the body of the animal, 
impure white: ears fringed with white behind: tail black, 
but more or less brownish at the root. Varieties occur in which 
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