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stare at them for some time. They diffuse an un- 

 pleasant odour, yet their flesh is eatable. 



As to their colours, some are whitish, some gray 

 spotted with black, some red with a brown streak 

 along the spine (which are most common), and some 

 brown with white crupper. But the limits of their 

 species have not yet been precisely determined. 

 Linne's denomination ofDidelphis Orimtalis embraces 

 them all. (Buff. XIII. x. xi.) 



The Fox-like Phalanger, (Did. Lemurina et Vulpina, Shaw.) 

 Bruno de Viq. d'Az. White, Voy. 278. 



As large as a rat, or even as a cat, grayish-brown, 

 more pale underneath, with a tail chiefly black. 



The Phalanger of Cook, (Cook, Last Voy., pi. vin.) 



Less than a cat, reddish-gray, white under 

 neath, red in the flanks, a white interval to- 

 wards the end of the tail. 



The Flying Phalanger s, (Petaurus, Shaw.) Phalan- 

 gisia, Illig. 



Have the skin of the flanks more or less extended 

 between the legs, like the polatouches (flying squir- 

 rels) among the rodentia, which permits them to 

 sustain themselves for some instants in the air and 

 to make more extended leaps. They are also found 

 no where but in New Holland. 



In some of this species are found some lower ca- 

 nine teeth, but extremely small. Their upper ca- 



