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PHASCOGALE ( Antechinus) APICALIS. 
Freckled Phascogale. 
Phascogale apicalis. Gray, Annals and Magazine of Natural Historj, 
vol. ix. p, 518. 1842. 
Antechinus apicalis. Gray, List of the Mammalia in the British Museum, 
1843, p. 99. 
<< <« Freckled Antechinus. Gould, Mammals of Australia, 
Pt. 1, PI. 11. 
General colour grey-brown—of a very ricli brown hue on the 
hinder parts of the body ; on the head and fore parts of the 
body distinctly freckled with black and white ; under parts 
dirty yellow-white ; fore legs of a bright rust colour; hind 
legs less distinctly tinted externally with the same colour: 
tail clothed at the root with hairs like those on the body, but 
with the hairs becoming gradually shorter towards the apex, 
where they are black. 
Inhabits ’Western Australia. 
This species is found in the Swan River district, and at 
King George’s Sound, and, indeed, appears to he pretty 
generally distributed over Western Australia. Mr. Neill 
informs me that it is called the “ Dibbler” at King Georges 
Sound, and I perceive, upon consulting Mr. Gould’s beautiful 
work, that that gentleman has received it from the same 
district with the name just mentioned. Mr. Gilbert, in his 
notes, quoted by Mr. Gould, states that he found insect 
remains in the stomachs of specimens which he dissected, and 
that, while at King George’s Sound, he obtained a female 
specimen having seven young attached ; they were little more 
