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DASYURUS ( Surcojihitm) CRSINUS. 
Ursine Dasynrus 1 . 
Didetphis ursina. Harris, Linnean Transactions, vol. is. p. 170, PI. 19, 
fig. 2. 
I)asyurns urtinu*. Gkoffkoy, An miles da Museum, lorn, xr, p. 305. 
Tkmminck, Monographic^ dc Manunalogic, tom. i. p. 69. 
Diabolus urtinu ». Gray, in Appendix to Grey's Journal. List of the 
Mammalia in the British Museum, 1843, p. 97. 
Fur coarse, moderate na to length, anti black, excepting on the 
head, tail, and under parts of the body, where it is brown- 
black : n broad white hand usually crosses the chest, and 
1 The Ursine Dasyurus is called by the colonists *• The Devil,” or ** Satire 
Devil1 see no necessity for adopting such barbarous nature, nor do I think 
it desirable to adopt otb«*r names given by our colonists, when they eontej 
an erroneous impression of the nature of the animals which have rrrdwl 
them. 
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