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inal pleafes to fufpend irfclf. It is a creature which has no great fliare of 

 external beauty. It has a long or produced iharp face, and a very wide 

 mouth. The (eet are furniflied with fharp claws, but the interior toes, or 

 thumbs, of the hind feet are flat and rounded, and have nails like thole of the 

 monkey tribe. The legs are blackifli, and the belly white. Tiie upper part 

 of the tail is nearly black. It is a carnivorous animal, and preys on poultry 

 and the fmaller birds and other creatures, in die manner of the European 

 polecat. 



The young, when firft born, are faid to refemble foetufes, and they either 

 enter the abdominal pouch themfelves, or elfe are immediately placed there 

 by the parent animal ; where they attach themfelves immoveably to the 

 teats, and when they have attained fufRcient growth and ftrength, again 

 emerge ; after which they occafionally take refuge in the fame receptacle 

 on the approach of any danger, and are carried about by the parent. 



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