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the head uiul sides of the body : feet and under parts of the 
body white: ears tolerably large, and clothed with minute 
hairs, for the most part dusky, but pale at the basal portiou 
of the ear externally : upper surface of the tail nearly black ; 
under surface dirty white. 
Inhabits Van Diemen’s Land. 
Tlie general tint of this tiniinul is somewhat darker than that 
of Phascogale albipes; the upper surface of the tail is almost 
black, whilst in the species just mentioned it is greyish, and 
the ears are smaller. Beyond these, I can perceive no other 
points of distinction between the Van Diemen's Land animal 
and the continental one, P. albipes . Of the former I have 
seen but one specimen, and I can scarcely satisfy myself, from 
such imperfect materials as are before me, that these White¬ 
footed P hancogales are specifically distinct. P. leucopu* 
presents the following dimensions : — 
Walk. 
Indies, lines. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail ... 4 4 
“ of toil . ... ... ..3 7 
“ of ear ... ... ... ... 5 
“ of hind foot and nail* ... ... ... 
A small Phuscogule is found at King George’s Sound 
which agrees very closely with the P. Irucojms , being of the 
same dark colour, and having the tail black above, or nearly so. 
iwo specimens in Mr. Gould's collection, thus resembling the 
\ an Diemen s Land animal, differ, however, in having the 
chest of a dusky grey hue: their dimensions ore given in 
the first and second columns of admeasurements which 
follow. In the tliird column I have udded the dimensions of 
a specimen from the same quarter, and which is preserved in 
spirits , it appears to have had the same colouring. A 
* In this specimen I have found no trace of a caecum, but in the PAascoyoJe 
Uucuyastcr h small hemispherical projection seemed to mark the line of 
