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DASYURUS GEOFFROYI. 
Geoffroy’s Dasyurus. 
Dasyurus Geoffroyi . Gould, Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 
November, 1840, Pt. 8, p. 151. 
Fur moderate ; general colour of the upper parts yellowish, 
pencilled with black, and having numerous irregular white 
spots; body beneath white; tail immaculate, black at the 
apex : hind foot with a distinct, but small inner toe, or 
thumb. 
Inhabits Western Australia, Southern Australia, and New South 
Wales. 
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The present species somewhat resembles the pale variety of 
Dasyurus mverrinus, to which Geoffrov applied the specific 
name Mauc/ei, but is distinguished most readily by its tail 
being much less bushy, and the hind foot being furnished 
with an inner toe, or thumb. The fur is moderately long, 
rather soft, and on the upper parts of the body of a greyish 
hue, but much suffused with yellow, and pencilled with black ; 
and these parts, moreover, as well as the sides of the body, 
are adorned with numerous irregular white spots: the head 
has a few small white spots only, and is often of a greyer hue 
than other parts, but the muzzle is somewhat tinted with 
brownish, and in front of the eye is a dusky patch ; the ears 
are dusky brown, and clothed with minute blackish brown 
hairs externally ; internally, with longisli, pencilled black 
and grey hairs, at and near the anterior margin, but towards 
the apex, and on the hinder parts, the hairs are minute and 
brownish : the under parts of the body arc white, or very 
nearly so ; the fore feet are brownish — sometimes brown- 
