a Western Australian animal, properlycalled the Long-snouted Phalanger, Tarsipesrostratus, the only species of its genus. See Phalanger and Opossum. It is about the size ofa mouse, and lives almost entirely on honey, which it extractsfrom flowers.
1894. R. Lydekker, `Marsupialia,' p. 120:
«The Long-snouted Phalanger, which derives its scientific namefrom a certain resemblance of its hind feet to those of aMalayan Lemur-like animal known as the Tarsier, is one of themost interesting of the phalangers. . . . Known to the nativesby the names of Tait and Nulbenger, it is,writes Gould, `generally found in all situations suited toits existence, from Swan River to King George's Sound.'»