. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 250 Zoological Society :— Var, albina 1 Cuscus orient alts, Temm. & Gray. Males pure white, without any dorsal streak. Hab. Islands of Waigiou and Ceram. Mr. "Wallace attached to the male species this observation : " the claws, soles, and end of the tail nearly white; eats leaves and cocoa-nuts (young)." He calls the male C. orientalis. We have specimens of both sexes in the Museum ; a very young and adult female from Waigiou, obtained from M. Verreaux in 18
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 250 Zoological Society :— Var, albina 1 Cuscus orient alts, Temm. & Gray. Males pure white, without any dorsal streak. Hab. Islands of Waigiou and Ceram. Mr. "Wallace attached to the male species this observation : " the claws, soles, and end of the tail nearly white; eats leaves and cocoa-nuts (young)." He calls the male C. orientalis. We have specimens of both sexes in the Museum ; a very young and adult female from Waigiou, obtained from M. Verreaux in 1856 ; and male and female, with two young from the pouch, from Waigiou, and a male from Ceram, from Mr. Wallace, in 1859 and 1860. In the skull of the female the temporal ridges are separated from one another by a wide flat band. Temminck, and other authors since his work, have described the male of this animal as white, and the female as silver-grey with a black dorsal streak ; but we have both sexes of the latter colour. Can the white males be an albino variety, and confined to the male sex ? We have two full-grown males of that colour, one obtained from Leyden Museum, said to come from Amboyna, and another from M. Ver- reaux, said to come from New Zealand ; they both have the small hinder false grinders. 7. Cuscus ORNATUS, Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 1, pi. lxxiv. (male). Both sexes grey-brown, grisled, and marked with small white spots and a distinct dorsal streak ; the ground-colour of the male is yellowish-red, of the female dark grey-brown. Hab. Ternate and Batchian {Wallace). We have a male and three females in the British Museum, all from Mr. Wallace—a male from Batchian in 1859, two adult and a young female from Ternate, obtained in 1858 and Skull of Cuscus ornatus (upper surface).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not
Size: 1986px × 1258px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookce, booksubjectbotany, booksubjectgeology, booksubjectzoology
