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Identifier: handbooktomarsup00lydekk (find matches)
Title: A hand-book to the marsupialia and monotremata
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Marsupials Monotremes
Publisher: London : E. Lloyd
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus.,p. 178 (1888). Characters.—Size moderate. General colour deep smokygrey; under-parts white. Ears thinly haired, with the whitespot on the hinder margin small; feet darker than the rest ofthe limbs ; tail with the white tip extending to a length of fiveor six inches, and the naked inferior portion smooth and aboutfour inches in length. Length of head and body about 13inches ; of tail 12 inches. Bistribntion.—Western Australia. This species may be regarded as the western representativeof the preceding one. V. TASMANIAN RING-TAILED PHALANGER PSEUDOCHIRUS COOKI. Phalangista cooki, Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. dHist. Nat., vol. XXV., p. 476 (1817).Phalangista viverrina, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1837, p. 131.Pseudochirus cooki, Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 176 (1888). (Plate XIII.) Characters.—Size moderate; fur very close, thick, and woolly.General colour dark smoky brown ; under-parts white. Earslarge, rounded, the anterior part of the back brown, the pos-
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THE RING-TAILED PHALANGERS. 97 terior margin usually white; feet dark brown or black; taildark brown, with from two to four inches of the tip white, andthe naked inferior portion smooth, and from three to fiveinches in length. Length of head and body about 14 inches ;of tail nearly the same. Distribution.—Tasmania. While the common Ring-tailed Phalanger, with which, asalready mentioned, the present species was largely confounded,was discovered during Cooks first voyage, the one under con-sideration was obtained in the third expedition of the greatnavigator. VI. YET.LOW PHALANGER. PSEUDOCHIRUS ARCHERL Fhalangista (Pseudochirus) archeri, Collett, Proc. Zool. Soc,1884, p. 381. Pseudochirus archeri, Collett, Zool. Jahrbuch, vol. ii., p. 912 (1887); Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 177 (1888). This and all the remaining members of the genus differ fromthe five preceding species in the shortness of the ears, whichare broader than long; while, with the exception of the presentspecies, t

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  • booksubject:Marsupials
  • booksubject:Monotremes
  • bookpublisher:London___E__Lloyd
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