SWAINSON’s rHASCOGALE. 
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incisors of tlic upper jaw of equal size, and also in having 
all the premolars equal 1 . We have already pointed out the 
differences observable in the dentition in the different species 
of the genus Phascogale (in which I include Ant echinus), 
and it is only necessary here to observe, that all the species 
which we, following Mr. Gray, place in the present section, 
do not precisely agree amongst each other in their dentition. 
PHASCOGALE {Antechinus) SWAINSONII. 
Swainson’s Phascogale. 
Phascogale Swainsonii. Waterhouse, Mag. Nat. Hist, for 1840, vol. iv. 
p. 300. 
Above deep brown, very finely pencilled with rusty brown ; 
beneath grey, obscurely tinted with yellow : tail and feet 
dusky brown. 
This species inhabits Van Diemen's Land, and ranks in 
size next to the Brush-tailed Phascogales, being larger than 
most of the species of the present section. Its colouring is 
much darker than other hitherto discovered species, and is 
almost destitute of any grey hue. The fur is long, and 
moderately soft, and is of a deep grey colour next the skin: 
on the back the hairs are most of them narrowly annulate! 
withrusty yellow, or brownish rust colour, the deeper tint being 
observable on the hinder parts. The hairs of the under 
parts of the body are grey, but tipped with yellowish. The 
tail is clothed throughout with small adpressed hairs of a 
dusky brown colour, and a trifle paler on the under than on 
1 Annals of Nat. Hist., vol. viii. p. 338. 
