AMERICAN OPOSSUM. 



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times preys on Fowls. Nature hath furnish'd this Beast 

 with a strange Bag under its Belly, whereof the inside 

 hath a far softer Doun than the outside, in which the 

 young ones lie and suck, after which the Bag opening, 

 they creep out upon the Ground. The Males have also 

 a Bag, which serves onely to carry their Young in, for 

 they and the Females carry them by turns." 



KOALA. 



Phascolarctus cinereus. 

 French : Koala. 



To this peculiar animal the name of Australian or 

 Native Bear has been given, probably on account of its 

 being the largest Australian mammal living on trees. It 

 is very unlike the Bear, both in its habits, which are 



