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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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ches inlength, coarsely shagreened. Length of head and body about14 inches; of tail 13 inches. Distribution.—Central Queensland, in the Herbert river dis-trict. This species—the Uta of the aborigines—is remarkable forthe inconstancy of the presence of the white rings on thelimbs ; the uniformly-coloured variety having been regarded asa distinct species, under the name of P. tnongan. It is statedto inhabit only the very summits of the mountain ranges of theHerbert river district, and consequently nothing has beenascertained as to its habits, which are, however, doubtlesslike those of the other species, in. COMMON RING-TAILED PHALANGER. PSEUDOCHIRUS PEREGRINUS. Didelphis peregrinus, Boddaert, Elench. Animal.; vol. i., p. 78 (1785).Didelphis caudivolvula, Kerr, Linn. Anim. Kingdom, p. 196 (1792).Didelphis novce-hoUajidicB, Bechstein, Uebers. Vierf. Thiere, vol. ii., p. 348 (1800).Phalangista convolutor^ Schinz, in Cuviers Thierreichs, vol. i., p. 258 (1821), u i^^^^ •^<==^ 5k^
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THE RING-TAILED PHALANGERS. 95 Phalangisia hanksii^ Gray, Ann. Mag, Nat. Hist., vol. i., p. 107 (1838). Phalangisia lanuginosa, Gould, Mammals of Australia, vol. i., pi. XX (1858).Pstudochirus caudivolvidus^ Jentink, Notes, Leyden Mus., vol. vii., p. 22 (1884). Pseudochirus peregrinus^ Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 172 (1888). (Plate XII.) Characters.—Size large; fur shorter than in the precedingspecies. General colour grey or rufous in variable proportions;under-parts white, greyish-white, or rufous; region round theeyes frequently conspicuously rufous; ears rather large, theirbacks generally grey anteriorly, with the posterior white patchdistinct, sometimes uniformly rufous. Outer side of limbsrufous; feet white or pale rufous; tail with the middle thirdblack or nearly so, from one to four inches of the tip white,naked inferior portion from one to four inches in length,smooth, and transversely striated. Length of head and bodyabout 16 inches ; of tail 14 inches. Distribution

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  • bookauthor:Lydekker__Richard__1849_1915
  • booksubject:Marsupials
  • booksubject:Monotremes
  • bookpublisher:London___E__Lloyd
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  • bookleafnumber:141
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