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Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2)

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Phascogale leucogaster, Gray.
Head and shoulders grey, behind rather browner, with scattered longer black-tipped hairs; chin and beneath pure white; feet brownish grey.

Body and head, 4; tail, 2 1/2 inches.
Inhabits Western Australia, banks of the Canning River, April 1839, Mr.
Gould.
More specimens and further observations may prove these to be only local varieties of one species; but the specimens we have from the same localities are similar in character, which is not the case with the different specimens of Hepoona.
Number 26.

Perameles fasciata, Gray.
Grey brown, rump with three black bands; tail white, with a black streak along the upper side.

Inhabits Liverpool Plains and South Australia; smaller than P.gunnii.
Number 28.

Perameles fusciventer, Gray.
Brown, yellow grizelled; tail above blackish, beneath grey; head short, conical; belly grey brown, with broad rufous channelled hairs.


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