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SYNOPSIS OF THE 



teeth i^, or |4 '•> ^^^ three first in the upper jaw,* false 

 teeth, being very small and triangular, the remainder in- 

 sectivorous, or furnished with sharp points ; the four first 

 in the lovv^er javv^, also false and small, and the three others 

 furnished veith points. Head long and conical, and muzzle 

 pointed ; ears large, rounded, and almost naked ; tongue 

 aculeated. Locomotion plantigrade ; pentadactylous, nails 

 long and bent ; thumbs of the hind feet long, opposable to 

 the fingers, and destitute of nail ; tail long, half hairy, 

 and scaly, hair hard, close ; stomach simple in all. 

 Inhabiting South America. 

 <^ * Female with a Pouch. 



475. I. D. FzVg^z'mawa (Virginian Opossum.) Fur silky, 

 mixed black and white bars, partly black and partly white ; 

 head nearly white ; size of a Rabbit. 



Didelphis Virginiana, Pennant, Quad. II. pa. 18. 



Sariguesa Oreilles Bicoleres, Cuik Reg. Anim. Sarigue 

 des Illinois, Buff. Sup. vi. S. a long poll. Buff. Sup. vi. 

 Micoure premier Manicou, Bonn. Ency. Opossum, Ameri- 

 eanSt d'Azara, Quad, du Paraguay. Virginian Opossum, 

 Shaw, Zool. vol. I. 



Icon. Buff. Sup. VI. f. 35, t. 34. Ency. Method, t. 264, 

 Sup. t. 7./. 1. Bonn. Ency. t. 24./. 6. Shaw, Zool. i. t. 

 107. Phil. Trans. Abridg. vi. t. 13. Mus. Lever, t. 6. 



Inhabits most of the hot and temperate parts of America. 



476. 2. D.AzarcB (Azara's Opossum.) Furoftwo sorts, one 

 cottony underneath, white at the base, and black at the tip; 

 the other long, stifi*, and white ; black round the eyes ; all 

 the legs black ; first half of the tail hairy, the rest scaly. 

 Total length about thirty inches, of which the tail is 

 fourteen. 



Didelphis Azarae, Temminck, Monographie de Mamma- 

 logiet pa. 30. 



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