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DASYUKUS GKOFJPROYI. 
white; the hind feet are nearly white, or greyish suffused 
with yellow: the tail is yellowish at the base, but much 
pencilled with black, the ends of the hairs being of that 
colour; the black gradually increases towards the tip of the 
tail, and usually about oue-tliird is entirely black. 
Male. 
Female. 
Male. 
Ins. Lines. 
Ins. Lines. 
Ins. Line*. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail 
14 0 
13 0 
16 0 
44 of tail ... ... . 
10 0 
8 6 
12 0 
" of tarsi, including toes and nails ... 
2 4 
2 3 
2 2 ; 
44 from nose to ear ... . 
2 5 
2 4 
2 7 : 
44 of ear 
1 2 
) 2 
1 0 
The British Museum collection contains specimens of this 
species from Liverpool Plains, from the brushes on the 
Murray, and from the neighbourhood of Perth. The dimen¬ 
sions in the third column are taken from an unstuffed specimen, 
from Liverpool plains, in Mr. Gould’s collection: a female 
specimen, also belonging to Mr. Gould, and which appeared 
to be adult, the teats being very large, was rather smaller. 
The mammffi were six in number. 
The anterior portion of a skull of the Dasyurue Geoffroyi 
contained in the British Museum collection, agrees very 
nearly in size with the corresponding part of the skull 
of Z). viverrinus, but differs in haring the zygomatic arches 
thrown more boldly outwards, and in haring the muzzle and 
nasal bones shorter. Its dimensions are os follows:— 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from the hinder root of the zygoma to 
the aj»ex of the intermaxillary bones ... 2 5 j 
Greatest width—wliich is rather behind the 
middle of the zygomatic arch . * 1 9 
Depth of the zygoma behind ... ... 3j 
