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DASYURUS VIVERRINUS. 
that there were sufficient grounds for rejecting the earlier name 
of maculal us, 1 have followed Mr. Gray in restoring that 
appellation. 
An account of the internal anatomy of the D. macula tun, 
or macro urns, will be found in the Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society for January, 1830, Part 3, p. 7. The 
specimen, which was dissected by Prof. Owen, was a female, 
and the Professor found the mamma? to be six in number, 
arranged three ou either side, describing three quarters of a 
circle, and seated within a slight fold of integument of a 
corresponding shape. 
DASYURUS VIVERRINUS. 
The Yiverrine Dasyurus. 
The Spotted Opossum. Phillip, Voyage to Botany Bay, p. 147, PI. 15. 
1789. 
Topoa Tafa. White, Journal of a Voyage to New South Wala, 
p. 283, and Plate. 1790. 
Didelphis tiverriua. Shaw, General Zoology, vol. i. Pt. 2, p. 491, 
PI. 111. 1800. 
Dasyurus viverrinus, et D. Muuyei. Gkopfroy, Annalc* du Museum, 
tom. iii. pp. 359 and 360. 1804. 
•' 44 Temminck, Mouogr. dc Mainm. pp. 71 and 72, 
PI. 7, Figs. 1—3 ; skull and lower jaw. 
Ears moderately large; fur long, and rather soft; tail bushy; head 
and body spotted with white : general colour black, or 
brown-black —(Dasyurus viverr intis of authors) ; or grey, 
washed with yellow* ; under parts of body and feet white; 
tail whitish at the extremity— (Das. Alauyei of authors). 
In all systematic works up to a very recent period, the 
animal under consideration appeal's under two names — 
