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GHCEROPUS CASTANOTIS. 
Tlie Choeropus, or Pig-footed Perameles, 
(Plate 13, fig. 2.) 
Chosropus ecaudaiun. Ogiley, Proceedings of the Zool. Society for March, 
1738, Pt. 9, pp. 25-G. Perameles ecaudatus, 
Ogilby, in Mitchell’s Journal, ii. p. 131, PI. 27. 
“ castanotis. Gray - , Annals of Natural History for March, 1812, 
yoI. ix. p. 42. 
“ “ Gould, Mammals of Australia, Pt. 1. Pl. 
Fur long, loose, and rather soft to the touch ; on tlie upper parts 
of tlie body of a brown-grey tint, and on the under parts 
white, or yellowish white ; cars clothed with very small bail’s, 
winch are chiefly of a rusty yellow colour, but are dusky 
towards the point of the ear: fore feet whitish; tarsi pale 
rufous; the great central toe dirty white. Tail clothed with 
short hairs, but those on the upper surface distinctly longer 
than elsewhere; the sides, under surface, and tip, brown- 
white ; the upper surface, black. 
Inhabits South Australia. 
Such is the colouring of one of two specimens in the 
collection of the British Museum; the other specimen differs 
in having the general tint of the body brown, and suffused 
with rust colour, especially on the flanks : the limbs are also 
tinted with pale rusty red. The fore feet, and tlie large toe 
of the hind foot, are whitish ; the tail is of a pale rust colour, 
if we except the longer hairs of the upper surface, which 
form a black crest l . The under parts of the body are rusty 
•white. The dusky or blackish hue of the apical portion of 
the ear is more extended on the outer surface of that organ 
than on the inner, in both specimens, and the fur, both on 
These longer hairs are less than a quarter of an inch in length. 
