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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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est,and the fourth in the smaller ones; claws very strong, sharp,and highly curved ; tail long, evenly bushy throughout. Glandspresent on chest and crown of head. Molars square, withrounded corners, and furnished with four cusps, except the last,which is triangular. The three species of this genus range over New Guinea andpart of Australia, including the area from the Halmahera groupof islands to Victoria. As mentioned under the head of thelatter, these Flying Phalangers appear to be descended fromthe next genus, or an allied extinct form. \. SQUIRREL FLYING PHALANGER. PETAURUS SCIUREUS. ■ Didelphys sciurea^ Shaw, Zool. New Holland, vol. i., p. 29 (^94).Petauriis sciureus, Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. dHist. Nat, vol. XXV., p. 403 (1817); Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 153 (1888).Petaurista sciurea, Desmarest, Mamm., vol. i., p. 270 (1820).Phalangista sciureay Schinz, Cuviers Thierreichs, vol. i., p. 260 (1821).Belideus sciureus, Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Regne Anim., Mamm., p. 189 (1842).
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THE FLYING PHALANGERS. I05 Belideus gracilis, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. South Wales,vol. vii., p. 619 (1882). (FlaU XV.) Characters.—Size medium ; fur soft and silky, slightly woolly.General colour soft pale grey, with a well-defined dark brown orblack stripe down the back ; under-parts white with a tinge ofyellow. Ears somewhat variable in size, nearly naked internally,and at their tips outside, followed posteriorly by a white or paleyellow spot. Upper surface of parachute dark brown or greyish,the edges fringed with white or pale yellow; feet pale grey orwhite on their upper surfaces. Length of toes in the order 5,4, 3, 2, I. Tail moderate, very bushy, grey, darkening termi-nally into black. Length of head and body about 10 inches; oftail II inches. ristriljution.—Eastern Australia, from Queensland to Vic-toria. II. LESSER FLYING PHALANGER. PETAURUS BREVICEPS. Fefaiiriis (Belideus) breviceps, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1838, p. 152.Peiauriis breviceps, Gray, in Greys Austral

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