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TERAMELES DOREYANUS. 
tint, and that on the under parts, and inner side of limbs 
rusty grey: tail rusty brown above, and greyish beneath; 
claws yellowish. 
Inhabits Peron’s Peninsula—in Shark Bay, Western Australia. 
The dimensions of this species ns given by Messrs. Quov 
and Guimard, reduced to English measure, are as follow:— 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail ... 6 6 
44 of head ... ... ... ... 1 10$ 
41 of tail. 2 8 
44 of fore legs ... ... 1 5 
** of hind legs ... ... 2 8 
The small size of this animal, and its having the teeth but 
little developed, caused MM. Quoy and Gaimard to suspect 
it might be young; these authors say, however, that they 
saw many specimens all of which were of the same size. 
The skull, represented on the same plate with Lite animal, and 
of the natural size, shows the four true molars as perfectly 
developed, a circumstance of itself sufficient to prove that 
the animal to which the skull belonged was adult. The 
cranium 1ms lost the occiput, but, making allowance for this 
part, it would be considerably smaller than that of any other 
known species of Pcramele s: its length, when entire, indeed, 
could not have been more than two inches. 
PERAMELES DOREYANUS. 
New Guinea Perameles. 
Perameles doreyanux. Qcov ct Gaimard, Voyage de Dccouvcrtes de I'As* 
trolnbe—Zoologic, tom. i. p. 100, PI. 16, figs. I—5. 
Read conical; the muzzle long, and tolerably thick; eye small, 
the pupil linear, and in the direction of the muzzle; ears 
