340 
PETAURUS PYGMiBUS. 
brane, and outer side of the limbs; and yellowish white on 
the under parts. The feet are rather paler than the legs 
externally: the lower part of the cheeks and the upper lip 
are yellowish white; the eye is encircled with blackish, and 
this dark hue is considerably extended in front of the eye. 
The ears are of moderate size, rounded, moderately well 
clothed with fur externally, where they are dusky towards the 
fore part, and whitish behind ; on the inner side of the ear 
near the apex, and from the apical portion, spring numerous 
long and extremely fine hairs. The hairs of the moustaches 
are numerous, slender, and of a dusky brown colour. The 
tail is about equal to the body in length, tolerably well 
clothed with hairs both above and beneath, but the short 
hairs on these parts lie close to the skin; on the sides the 
tail is fringed with longer hairs, and, including the hairs, its 
horizontal diameter is about a quarter of an inch ; the upper 
parts of the tail are of the same ashy brown hue ns the body, 
and the colour of the under surface differs only in being paler. 
The fur of the animal is rather short, and very soft; on the 
back it is grey next the skin ; on the throat and chest each 
hair is uniform yellowish white throughout its length, hut 
on the abdomen the hairs are for the most part grey at the 
root. 
Inches. 
Lanes. 
Inches. 
Lines. 
Length from tip of nose to ear 
3 
7 
3 
6 
44 of tail ... ... . 
2 
9 
2 
10 
44 of ear 
31 
3i 
44 of fore foot ... ... . 
41 
44 of hind foot 
5 
The dimensions in the first column are taken from a speci¬ 
men in the British Museum, and those in the second give the 
size of a specimen in the museum of the Zoological Society. 
