Austral English / A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia

by Edward Ellis Morris

The <i>Narrow-footed Pouched-Mice</i> belong to the genus <i>Sminthopsis</i>, and differ from the <i>Phascologales</i> in being entirely terrestrial in their habits, whereas the latter are usually arboreal; the species are—

Common Narrow-footed Pouched-Mouse—
<i>Sminthopsis murina</i>, Water.

Finke N.-f. P.-M.—
<i>S. larapinta</i>, Spencer.

Sandhill N.-f. P.-M.—
<i>S. psammophilus</i>, Spencer.

Stripe-faced N.-f. P.-M.—
<i>S. virginiae</i>, De Tarrag.

Thick-tailed N.-f. P.-M.—
<i>S. crassicaudata</i>, Gould.

White-footed N.-f. P.-M.
<i>S. leucopus</i>, Grey.

The third genus, <i>Dasyuroides</i>, has only one species—
Byrne's Pouched-Mouse, <i>D. byrnei</i>, Spencer.

The fourth genus, <i>Antechinomys</i>, has only one known species—the <i>Long-legged Jumping Pouched-Mouse</i>, <i>A. laniger</i>, Gould.

<hw>Pounamu</hw>, or <hw>Poenamu</hw>, <i>n</i>. the Maori name for <i>Nephrite, Jade</i>, or <i>Greenstone</i> (q.v.). In the second spelling the <i>e</i> is hardly sounded.