Vlll DIV. I. VERTEBRATA. 



and the cat : these we have endeavoured to indicate above by smaller 

 brackets, within the general bracket including all the genera of the 

 tribe. The Amphibia also formerly made but two genera, the seals 

 {Phoca) and the Morses ( Trichecus), the first of which we see Cuvier 

 has here extended to several subdivisions. 



ORDER IV.— Marsupiata. 



The arrangement of these animals, chiefly inhabitants of the 

 Australian continent, seems by no means decided. In his first 

 edition Cuvier had made of them a family of the order Carnassier ; 

 in the second he established them into a separate order ; but even 

 then expressed his opinion that they ought rather to be looked on as 

 a class containing several orders running parallel with the orders of 

 ordinary quadrupeds. He finally, however, left them as an order 

 divided into seven genera, three of which are subdivided. 



Genus. Siihge?ius. Example of Species. 



I. Didelphis, L . ) ^'"' ••••-; T,,?1'Z 



Didelphis, prop. \ D. Virginiana, Penn. Virginian 

 i 

 /Did 



t f 



/Dai 



\ i 

 /Da! 



t s 



IV. Di( 



4 -o 1 /^ jr fP' nasutus, Geoif. the Lons- 



4. Peraraeles, (jeoff. < , , , , 7 



(. nosed pouched badger 



r,-^. ^ riT f Did. palmata, Geoff, lapock, or 



Chironectes, Illig. ■{ , , , •' 



° (. pabnated opossum 



i 1. Thvlacini Tm. . -f ^^^y"™^ cynocephalus, Geoff. 

 4, .J ' ^ Dog-faced dasyurus 



II. Dasyurus, 1 9 Phascoo-ali Tem /Das. minimus, Geoff. Z)?i^ar/f?a- 



Geoif. \ *"" '^ ' ' " ^ *^'"'"* 



*' S ^' I^'^syui'^'s, prop. C?<D. Didelphis iirsina,HaiT. the Z)ei'27 



^^^„ Tioi.- Til- rPhal. ursina, Tem. Bear-like 



III. Phalangista, I !• ^alantia, Ilhg. . . I ^j^^j^^g^^. 



C«'«'' I 2. Petaurus, 5/.a«...P'^- P^^^^' ^^^^^'' ^'^"'-" 



V (_ dwarj phalanger 



IV. Hypsiprimnus, Illig \ M'^'^^P"^ ^5"°'' Shaw. Kan- 



'' ^ >~ ' o ^ garoo rat 



V. Macropus, Shaw /M: major, Shaw, Gigantic kan- 



t- ' (^ garoo 



-ITT T' r< 7jr f L. cinereus, Goldfuss. A'oa^a, or 



VI. Lipurus, Goldfuss | ^^^, ^jj^^^^ ^j^^j^ 



VII. Phascolomys, Geoff Did. ursina, Shaw, the Wombat 



ORDER V. RODENTIA. 



In his first edition Cuvier had divided this order into two sections, 

 the first possessing perfect, the second only rudimentary clavicles : 

 these divisions ran by such gradual shades into each other, that the 

 point of separation was, we may say, almost arbitrary. In his 

 second edition, therefore, he contents himself by arranging his ge- 

 nera and indicating such as possess strong clavicles or the reverse. 



