SPOTTED-TAILED DASYURUS. 
439 
Width between orbits .. 
8 
“ behind orbits ... . 
5 
Length from anterior angle of orbit to apex 
of intermaxillaries ... . 
1 
n 
“ of nasal bones 
hi 
Width of ditto behind ... . 
“ in front 
2f 
Length of palate ... ... . 
1 
H 
Width of ditto between the hindermost molars 
n 
Length of the four true molars taken together 
0 
Length of lower jaw, measuring to the back 
part of the condyle 
2 
31 
Height of ditto from the apex of the coronoid 
process .. ... ... . 
m 
DASYURUS MACULATUS. 
Spotted-tailed Dasyurus. 
The Spotted Martin. Phillip's Voyage to Botany Bay, p. 276. Martin, 
Cat. Pl. 46. 1789. 
Viverramaculata. Shaw, General Zoology, vol. i. Pt. 2, p. 433. 1800. 
Dasyurus macrourus. Geoffroy, Ann. du Mus. tom. iii. p. 358. 1804. 
“ “ Peron et Lesueur, Voyage aux terres Australes, 
PI. 33. 
“ “ Temminck, Monog. de Mammalogie, tom. i. p. 69. 
1827. 
“ “ Waterhouse, Naturalists’ Library (Marsupialia), 
vol. xi. p. 130, PI. 6. 
“ maculatus, Spotted-tailed Dasyure. Gray, List of the Mammalia 
in the British Museum, 1843, p. 98. 
Fur rather coarse, and by no means long : general colour reddish 
brown, or deep brown, pencilled with yellowish : body 
beneath yellowish : body and tail spotted with white. 
Inhabits Van Diemen’s Land. 
In no known species of Dasyurus besides the present is 
the tail spotted as well as the body; hence the English name 
