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PEItAMELKS NASUTA. 
I question much whether the shortness of the head in the 
larger specimen does not arise from the mode in which the 
specimen has been staffed, and with regard to the yellowish 
tint of the abdomen, I may observe, that in specimens which 
are undoubtedly the P. obemla, the under ports of the body 
are sometimes tinted with yellow, though less strongly than 
in the little animal above described. I cannot see any good 
grounds for regarding the specimens called fusci renter, as 
specifically distinct from the P. obesula . 
PE1UMELES NASUTA. 
Long-nosed Perameles. 
Peramcles nasuta. Geoffroy, Annates du Museum, tom. iv. p. 62, 
PI. 44. 
44 nasuta and aurita , of the Paris Museum. 
44 44 Watf.riiodse, Nat. Libr. (Marsupialia) vol. xi. p. 155. 
PI. 13. 
? 41 Lawtom. Quor et Gaimard, Voyage de PUranie — Zoologie, 
p. 57, and p. 711. 
Muzzle much elongated; ears moderate : general colour pale 
brown ; on the sides of head and body of a very pale vinous 
red; under parts of body and feet yellowish white ; tail 
brown above, dirty white beneath. 
Inhabits New South Wales. 
The Long-nosed Perameles, as its name implies, bus the 
muzzle more elongated than in other species of the present 
section : its fur is almost entirely composed of harsh and 
llattened hairs, hut there is a scanty under fur of fine hairs, 
which are of a pule grey colour ou the upper parts of the 
body. The lunger and coarser hairs on the back have their 
