A hand-book to the marsupialia and monotremata . feet of hairs present behind the eyes and inside the ears, thelatter being fawn-eolour on the outer sides anteriorly andwhite posteriorly ; margins of parachute fringed with longishhairs. Tail rather long, fawn-colour, with its extreme tipnaked inferiorly and probably prehensile. Length of headand body about 3 inches; of tail nearly the same. Distribution.—Queensland, to the south of latitude 20°, NewSouth Wales, and Victoria. Habits.—Resembling a Common Mouse in size, and henceknown to the colonists as the Flying Mouse, or Opossum-M
A hand-book to the marsupialia and monotremata . feet of hairs present behind the eyes and inside the ears, thelatter being fawn-eolour on the outer sides anteriorly andwhite posteriorly ; margins of parachute fringed with longishhairs. Tail rather long, fawn-colour, with its extreme tipnaked inferiorly and probably prehensile. Length of headand body about 3 inches; of tail nearly the same. Distribution.—Queensland, to the south of latitude 20°, NewSouth Wales, and Victoria. Habits.—Resembling a Common Mouse in size, and henceknown to the colonists as the Flying Mouse, or Opossum-Mouse,this little animal is one of the most elegant of the AustralianMarsupials. At one time exceedingly numerous in the neigh-bourhood of Port Jackson, although comparatively rare inother parts of its habitat, it is, from its small size, but seldomseen, although individuals will at times come into the tents ofthose camping out in the bush. Beyond the fact that it isarboreal and volant, little seems to have been recorded of its PLATE XVni,. PIGMY FLYING-PHALANGER. LONG-SNOUTED PH A LANCERS. ng habits; but an anonymous writer states that he has seen afamily of young ones taken out of a hollow tree. II. PAPUAN PIGMY FLYING PHALANGER. ACROBATESPULCHELLUS. Acrohates pulchellu^^ Rothschild, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1892, Characters.—According to its describer, this species differsfrom the last in its more purpHsh-brown colour, its broaderand more robust head, much shorter tail, and comparativelysmaller body. The under-parts are also much whiter, and thewhole of the throat and sides of the lower jaw are pure white,instead of yellowish-grey. Around the eyes is a blackish-brownpatch extending nearly to the nose, while the ears are rathersmaller than in A. pygmceus. The length of the tail is 2^inches against 3 J in the latter. Distribution.—One of the small islands of Northern DutchNew Guinea. LONG-SNOUTED GENUS TARSIPES. Tarsipes^ Gervais and Verreaux, Proc. Zool. S
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