YELLOW-FOOTED PHASCOGALE. 415 
sides of the toes, which present numerous strong transverse 
incisions. 
[nches. 
Lines. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail 
C 
0 
6 
8 
“ of tail 
3 
2 
4 
0 
“ from nose to ear . 
1 
4 
1 
6 
“ of ear 
5 
Width of ditto ... . 
6 
Length of hind foot and nails 
11* 
1 
0 
The dimensions in the first column are from a female 
specimen in the British Museum; those in the second, are 
from a very large male in Mr. Goulds collection. 
PHASCOGALE ( Antechinus ) FLAYIPES. 
Yellow-footed Phascogale. 
Phascogale fiavipes. Waterhoose, Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1837, p. 75. 
“ rufogaster. Gray, App. Grey's Journal, p. 407. 
Ant echinus fiavipes. Gray, List of the Mammalia in the British Museum, 
1843, p. 99. 
? Antechinus Siuartii. MacLeay, Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. viii. 
p. 242, and p. 338. 
General colour of upper parts grey, but on hinder parts of back 
tinted with fulvous; sides of body washed, as it were, with 
bright rusty yellow, or with rust colour; feet, and under 
parts of body, bright rust colour, or rusty yellow; chin, 
throat, and chest, whitish : tail black ; freckled with yellow 
towards the base above; under parts, at base, rusty yellow. 
Inhabits New South Wales and South Australia. 
The fur of P. Jlavipes is moderately long, and soft, of a 
deep grey colour next the skin, hut blackish, and, for the 
