A third genus of Flying Phalangers is the minute Acrobates, which has a distichous tail like that of Distaechurus.
The Phalangers are Marsupials with five fingers and toes; the second and third toes are bound together by a {139} common integument as in the Macropodidae.
The pouch opens forward in the Kangaroos, and backwards in the Phalangers and in the Polyprotodonts.
Dromicia is a genus of Phalangers which although devoid of a parachute, such as is possessed by certain genera that will be considered immediately, is able to leap with great agility from branch to branch.
These phalangers or cuscuses had already been sent home to European collections from the Dutch East Indies, and had been described and named by Buffon, the great eighteenth-century French zoologist.
Phalangers are woolly haired lemur-like marsupials, living in trees, which have their thumb and big toe opposite the other digits for grasping, besides a tail with a prehensile tip.
Of more interest is the imperfectly known Wynyardia, from older Tertiary beds in Tasmania, which apparently presents points of affinity both to phalangers and dasyures.
Cuscuses and phalangers form a numerous group, all the members of which are arboreal, and some of which are provided with lateral expansions of skin enabling them to glide from tree to tree like flying-squirrels.
Here may be noticed three genera of large extinct marsupials from the Pleistocene of Australia whose affinities appear to ally them to the wombat-group on the one hand and to the phalangers on the other.
The cry of the night-bird, the rustle of the phalangers and the smaller marsupials, as they glided through the wiry frozen grass or climbed the clear stems of the eucalypti.
These are the typical phalangers or `opossums,' as they are commonly called in Australia.
It includes however several other forms, such as the Flying-Phalangers [q.
The Phalangers are chiefly Australian, but range as far as the Celebes.
I have retained the name of Petaurista for the flying Phalangers with hairy ears, as Dr.
Other tree-living phalangers are the "opossums" of Australia, whose soft gray pelts are exported in great numbers to foreign fur markets.
In certain Marsupials with well-developed caecal pouches, such as Phascolarctos and the Vulpine Phalangers (Figs.
This type of caecum characterizes the Phalangeridae or Phalangers and the Phasolarctidae.
Several other species ofphalangers inhabit these and other Asiatic islands, especially Celebes and New Ireland.
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