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PI1A8COGALE MACROURA. 
formly white. The tarsi are almost entirely covered with 
hair on the tinder side, there being only a very narrow miked 
space running backwards from the digital pads, which am 
covered with small tubercles. Two longitudinal rows of 
small tubercles are observable on the under side of each toe. 
The fur, both on the upper and under parts of the body, is 
grey next the skin. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail ... 3 3 
** of tail .. ... ... . 2 10 
•' of ear ... ... ... ... 
44 of hind foot and naiU ... . 7i 
PHASCOGALE (. Antechinu*) MACROURA. 
Ash-coloured Phoscogale. 
Podabrus rnaervurus. Gould, Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 
June, 1845. 
Fur moderately long, and soft; on the upper parts of the body 
ashy grey, somewhat suffused with black on the back and 
mesial line of the head, on the under parts of the body white, 
and on the sides of the body tinted with cream-colour: feet 
white : tail with the basal half much thickened—in the 
male sex at least; clothed throughout with small hairs, 
above partly black and partly yellow' on the basal portion, 
but entirely black on the apical portion ; beneath dirty 
white: ears moderately large, clothed with whitish hairs, 
but dusky on the outer side, in front. Eye encircled with 
black. The fur on the upper and under parts of the body 
of a deep grey colour next the skin. 
Inhabits New South Wales. 
In Mr. Gould’s collection arc two specimens of this species 
which appeur to me to be decidedly distinct from the Phasco- 
