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TARSIPES ROSTRATUS. 
Long-snouted Tarsipes. 
(Plate 11, Fig 1.) 
Tarsipes rostratus. Gervais and Verreaux, Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society for January, 1812, Pt. 10, p. 1 ; Guerin’s 
Magasin de Zoologie, annee 1842, Mammiferes, 
Pis. 35—37. 
41 44 Gould, Mammals of Australia, Pt. 1, PI. 1. 
44 Spenserce. Gray, in Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist, for March, 
1842, vol. 9, p. 40. 
Fur short, adpresscd, and rather harsh; general tint grey, more 
or less suffused with rust colour • sides of body distinctly 
tinted with rust colour, or rusty yellow ; under parts rusty 
yellow, or rusty white ; back with three longitudinal dark 
lines: tail dusky above, greyish beneath. 
Inhabits Western Australia. *■* 
The Tarsipes, so named on account of its feet having a 
considerable resemblance to those of a little animal found in 
the Indian Islands, and called the Tarsier, is certainly one of 
the most interesting of Mammalian forms recently discovered. 
Let the reader imagine a little quadruped of the size and 
general form of a mouse, but with a long, slender, and 
pointed muzzle, and to this we will add, that its fur is shorter 
and coarser, and more closely applied to the skin, than in the 
mouse ; that its colouring is richer, and that it has three dark 
longitudinal stripes on the back, of which the two outermost 
are rather indistinct. Such is the general aspect of the 
Tarsipes; but our animal requires to be more closely examined, 
and in so doing we shall find that its characters essentially 
differ much from those of the mouse, that they indicate a 
lower grade of organization, and a difference of habits, and 
