ADDITIONS from the Supplementary 

 Volume. 



THE CRAB-EAFER 



* 



as 



THE name crab- eat ei\ or crab- dog, h 

 been given to this animal, becaufe crabs 

 ■ are his principal food. He has very little rela- 

 tion to the dog or fox, to which fome travellers 

 have compared him. He feems to be more near- 

 ly allied to the opofTums ; but he is much 

 larger, and the female crab-eater carries not her 

 voting, like the female opofTum, in a pouch un- 

 der her belly. Hence the crab-eater appears to 

 be a detached fpecies, and different from all ihofe 

 we have formerly defcribed. 



In the figure, the long naked, fcaly tail, the 

 large thumbs without claws on the hind feet, 



and 



* Cayenne opoffum, wltli a long (lender face ; ears ercifl, 

 pointed, and (hort ; the coat woolly, mixed with very coarfe 

 hairs, three inches long, of a dirty wliite from the roots to 

 the middle ; from thuice to the ends of a deep brown ; lidcs 

 and belly of a pale yellow ; legs of a duiky brown ; thuml> 

 on each foot diftina ; on the toes of the fore feet, and thuml> 

 on the hind, are nails ; on the toes of the hind feet crooked 

 claws ; tail very long, taper, naked, and fcaly. Length 

 feventeen inches ; that of the tail fifteen and vi half. The 

 fubjeiSt msafuved was very yoiir.g ; PcmtarJ'i Jj'iopf. <// quad. 

 Edit. 2./>. 309. 



Canis ferus major, Cancrofus vulgo diciu;. Koupara > 

 Barnrt, Fr^^r.c. Equiri. p. 149. 



