TASMANIAN WHITE-FOOTED PHASCOGALE. 
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The fur, both on the upper and under parts of the body, is 
of a deep slate grey colour next the skin : on the upper parts, 
the hairs are of a very pale yellow colour near the point, and 
black at the point; those on the under parts of the body are 
white at the point. The eyes are encircled with black. The 
ears, which are large, are clothed throughout with minute 
hairs, chiefly of a pale hue, but dusky on the outer surface 
near the anterior margin. The tail is clothed with very small 
hairs (smaller than in either of the preceding species), and 
these are of a dirty white colour on the under surface, and 
partly black and party yellow-white on the upper suface. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail ... 3 9 
44 of tail ... .. ... . 3 2 
44 from nose to ear ... ... . . 10^ 
44 of ear ... ... ... . 6 
“ of tarsus and nails.. ... 8J 
The skull in P. albipes is proportionately narrower, and 
less depressed, than in P. Jlavipes and its allies, and the 
palate has an extra pair of openings — they are situated 
entirely in the palatine bone. The principal palatine open¬ 
ings are situated opposite the first, second, and third true 
molars. 
PHASCOGALE (: Antechinus ) LEUCOPUS. 
Tasmanian White-footed Pliascogale. 
Phascogale leucopus. Gray, Annals and Magazine of Natural History for 
December, 1842, vol. x. p. 261. 
Fur very soft, and rather long : general colour grey, much 
suffused with black on the back of the animal, and very 
finely pencilled with pale yellow ; the yellow most distinct on 
