MARSUPIATA DJDELPHIDAE DIDELPHYS CALIFORNICA. 



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The following table contains the measurements in detail of a fresh specimen from near Wash 

 ington: 



General dimensions. 



List of specimens. 



DIDELPHYS CALIFORNICA. 



Texas Possum. 



Didelphys californica, BENNETT, Pr. Zool. Soc. I, 1833, 40. 



WAGNER, Suppl. Schreb. Ill, 1843, 40. IB. V, 1855, 223. 



WATERHOUSE, N. H. Mamm. I, 1846, 476. 



AUD. & BACH. N. A. Quad. Ill, 1854, 331. 



EURMEISTER, Erlaiit. Fauna Brasiliens, 1856, 63. (Seems somewhat different.) 

 ? Didelphys breviceps, BENN. Pr. Zool. Soc. I, 1833, 40. 



WAGNER, Suppl. Schreber, III, 1843, 40. IB. V, 1855, 224. 



WATEKHOUSE, Nat. Hist. Mamm. I, 1846, 478. 



AUD. & BACH. N. A. Quad. Ill, 1854, 224. 



Didelphys pruinosa, WAGNER, Suppl. Schreber, III, 1843, 40, (note.) IB. V, 1855. 

 WATERHOUSE, N. H. Mamm. I, 1846, 477. 



Sp. CH. Hairs whitish with brown tips, imparting a nearly black shade. Body with numerous long white hairs mixed with the 

 rest. Legs and feet entirely dark brown or black to the claws. Head dusky above and below, with a brown lateral streak 



30 L 



