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 the Banksias, and lived a few days in captivity. In its habits it is nocturnal. The tongue of this Dromicia is well adapted for sucking the honey from the blossoms of the Banksiæ and Eucalypti, being furnished with a slight brush at the tip. This species differs from the D. concinna of Western Australia in being of a uniform dark colour, without the white belly, and having the base of the tail slightly enlarged; it is about the same size as D. concinna."

Habitat. New South Wales.

Genus, Temm.

33. Phascogale penicillata

Bäl-lard, aborigines of King George's Sound.

Habitat. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Swan River.

34. Phascogale calura, Gould

King-goor, aborigines of Williams River.

Habitat. Interior of New South Wales and the colony of Victoria.

35. Phascogale lanigera, Gould

Habitat. Interior of New South Wales.

Genus, MacLeay.

36. Antechinus Swainsoni

Habitat. Van Diemen's Land.

37. Antechinus leucopus, Gray

Habitat. Van Diemen's Land?

38. Antechinus ferruginifrons, Gould

Habitat. New South Wales.

39. Antechinus unicolor, Gould

Habitat. New South Wales.

40. Antechinus leucogaster, Gray

Habitat. Western Australia.

41. Antechinus apicalis

Habitat. Southern and Western Australia.