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in the earth with rapidity and ease, nnd to these, and the hollow 
trunks of fallen trees, it Hies for shelter when pursued by its 
enemies. 
“ Mr. Gilbert remarks, that this species is, without 
exception, the most difficult to skin of all the Marsupials 
with which he is acquainted ; the skin is, in fact, so tender, 
that the weight of one of the limbs, if left hanging by the 
skin, is sufficient to separate it from the body/’ 
I am indebted to Mr. Neill, of King George's Sound, for a 
drawing, and some notes, of a species of rerameles, which that 
gentleman informs me is found to tbe westward of King 
George's Sound only. The animal (which is there known to 
the natives by the name of “ Gnemmel ). judging from these 
materials, and also from some parts of the skeleton, also 
forwarded to me, is clearly the Peramele* myosuros. The 
specimen drawn by Mr. Neill lived for several weeks in ton- 
finement : its food, which consisted of raw niuttou and 
insects, Mr. Neill states, was encircled by its lung tongue, 
and conveyed by that organ to tbe mouth, piece bv piece, 
with the greatest rapidity. The natives state that it makes 
a nest composed of sticks, straws, &c. 
The skull of Per a melts wy os tiros is of a more delicate 
make than that of P. obesula . In this latter animal, the 
cranium, when old, presents a slight trace of sagittal crest, 
hut in P. myosuros the temporal ridges can scarcely be 
traced, and never meet: its form is more elongated; the 
muzzle is more attenuated, nnd the zygomatic arch is more 
slender. As would be anticipated, these differences are 
accompanied by a reduced size in tbe teeth ; and, the muzzle 
being longer in P. myosuros , some of the teeth are more widely 
separated from those which precede, or follow them in the 
series; thus the fifth incisor is more widely separated from 
the fourth, or from the canine, and between this latter tooth 
and the premolars, as w’ell as between the two foremost of the 
