TAGUAN FLYING-PHALANGER. 
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the upper parts of the body are more or less of a dirty white 
colour. 
Inhabits New South Wales. 
TheTaguan Flying-Pluilanger lias a short and small head, 
broad ears, which, with the exception of a narrow space at 
the apex, are clothed with long dense fur, like that on the 
head, and a very long, bushy, and cylindrical tail l . The 
flank membrane, which fills the interspace between the fore 
and hind legs, is attached to the fore leg as far forwards as 
the elbow-joint, and to the hind leg as far as the base of the 
inner toe or thumb. The fur of the animal is very long and 
loose, and soft to the touch : its general colour on the upper 
parts of the body is brown-black; on the head, and back of 
the ears, brownish, and on the flank membrane it is pencilled 
with whitish, though the ground-colour is the same as that of 
the body: the feet, muzzle, and chin, are almost black; the 
throat, chest, under parts of the body and flank membrane, 
as well as the inner side of the limbs, are impure white; the 
wrists and ankles, however, are black on the inner side as well 
as on the outer: the long hairs near and at the posterior 
margin of the ear, are white, or whitish, and project from the 
edge of the ear in the form of a fringe; the hairs covering 
the hind feet, and along the back of the leg to the root of the 
tail, are very long: the tail is of a black, or brown-black 
colour, but is almost always paler at the root, and along the 
under surface for some considerable distance from the root; 
here the hairs are sometimes yellowish brown, and sometimes 
brown-white. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail 20 0 
“ of tail .22 0 
“ from tip of nose to ear ... 2 2 
“ of ear ... ... ... 1 4 
“ of hind foot and nails ... 2 2 
“ of forefoot . 1 11 
Inches. Lines. 
20 0 
21 0 
1 4 
2 3 
2 1 
1 The average diameter of the tail, including the fur, is about two inches. 
