PERAMELES BOUGAINVILLEI. 
385 
premolars, the spaces are greater. The upper true molars 
differ from those of P. obesula in having the posterior internal 
lobe distinctly smaller than the anterior one. The lower jaw 
in the animal under consideration is much more slender 
than in P. obesula , and has the condyloid arid coronoid pro¬ 
cesses less elevated. 
Inches. 
Lines. 
Length of skull 
2 
8i 
Width of ditto. 
1 
U 
Length of nasal bones . 
1 
H 
Width of ditto behind. 
21 
“ “ in front 
i§ 
“ ** between orbits ... ... ... 
7 
Length of palate 
Space between fourth and fifth upper incisors 
H 
“ “ fifth incisor and canine 
11 
11 u canine and fifth premolar ... 
i§ 
11 from front of foremost incisor to back 
of last molar ... . ... 
1 
51 
Length of four true molars taken together ... 
5i 
“ of incisive openings . 
41 
“ of second pair of palatine openings 
31 
u of principal palatine openings 
41 
“ of auditory bullae . 
4 
“ of lower jaw 
2 
o§ 
Height of ditto from the apex of the coronoid 
process . 
n 
PEKAMELES BOUGAINVILLEI. 
Bougainville’s Perameles. 
Perameles Bougainvillei. Quoy et Gaimard, Zoologie du Voyage de 
rUranie, p. 56, Tab. 5. Bulletin des Sci. Nat. 
1824, tom. i. p. 270. 
Muzzle attenuated; eyes tolerably large ; ears ovate; fur mode¬ 
rately harsh ; that on the upper parts of the body of a rusty 
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