ORDER CARaASSIER. 3L 



back, and the sides of the body have a yellowish ground, 

 sprinkled with black. These colours are produced by hairs 

 rather short in comparison with the others, which for the 

 most part are of a dirty white, and by very long hairs the 

 upper part of which is black. These latter hairs are more 

 numerous along the spine of the back than elsewhere, and 

 when the animal is irritated they bristle up in the form of 

 a dorsal mane. The limbs are entirely black as far as the 

 unguical phalanges, which are white. The claws are 

 white, the muzzle is flesh-coloured, and the under lip is 

 edged with black in its posterior half. The ear is without 

 the white spot we have noticed in the Virginian congener. 

 The third part of the tail at the base is black, the rest white. 



This species was first established by Linnaeus, after the 

 great Philander of Seba, under the name Marsupialis. 

 Gmelin, afterwards by mistake, made a second species of 

 the Crab-eater of Buffon, which he named cancrivora. At 

 Cayenne, according to M. Barrere, they give it the denomi- 

 nation of Pian, which is only a modification of the French 

 word Puant. The term Crab-eater is objectionable as it is 

 already applied to two other animals. 



The next species in our author is the Four-eyed Sarigue, 

 of Cayenne. {Did. Opossum of Linnseus.) The length of 

 its entire body is about one foot two inches, and the tail a 

 little longer. The head is pointed, the forehead and top 

 of the head are on the same line. The ears are large, 

 round, and thin. The fur is of a reddish brown, mixed 

 with gray on the upper part of the animal, from the end 

 of the muzzle to the scaly part of the tail, as well as on 

 the external surface of the thigh, the leg, the arm, and 

 part of the fore-arm. 



The head is of a more reddish brown than the other 

 parts. There are hairs of a dirty white at the basis of the 

 ears. There is a spot of the same colour in front of each 

 ear, and above the eye, from which circumstance the name 



