HANDSOME-TAILED PHASCOGALE. 
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Western Australia. It climbs trees in quest of its insect 
food, and makes its nest in the hollows of the trunks or 
branches. Mr. Gould states that it enters the stores of the 
settlers, and that it is accused of attacking their poultry. 
PHASCOGALE CALUEA. 
Handsome- tailed Phascogale. 
{Plate 14, fig. 2.) 
Phascogale calura — Handsome-tailed Phascogale. Gould, Mammals of 
Australia, Pt. 1, PI. 7. Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society for June, 1844, p. 104. 
General colour of the upper parts of the body ashy grey ; of 
under parts yellowish white : tail at the base with short 
bright rust coloured hairs ; the apical half with long black 
hairs. 
Inhabits Western Australia. 
A beautiful species, discovered by Mr. Gilbert, at Williams' 
Eiver, Western Australia. Like the P. penicillata it lias the 
apical portion of the tail clothed with long black hairs, but it 
may be distinguished from that animal by its smaller size, 
and the brilliant rust colour of the basal part of the tail; 
the black hairs on the remaining portion, moreover, although 
long, are by no means so long as in P. jienicillata. The 
skull, which has been removed from the specimen described 
by Mr. Gould, and which is now in the British Museum, has 
all the teeth developed, and its much smaller size, combined 
with some differences of proportion when compared with that 
of P. penicillata, leave no doubt on my mind as to the dis¬ 
tinctness of the two species. The prevailing colour of the 
