Zoological Gardens.—The Director of the Museum, Mr Bernard H. Woodward,
has deposited in the Zoological Gardens a pair of pouched mice, to which
he proposes to give the name of Phascologale blighi, in honour of Mr.
Arthur C. Bligh, who brought them from the south of the Pilbarra
goldfield, in his saddlebag. They are marsupials, belonging to the same
family as the native cats, and closely resemble the Lesser Brush-tailed
Phascologale (P. calura), which is found in South-Western districts of
this State, but differ in the number of pads and certain other anatomical
features, of which particulars will shortly be published. They are insect
eaters, but do not refuse lizards, small mice, eggs, etc. Mr. Le Souef
afterwards obtained two young females of this Phascologale from Mr. Bligh.
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