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remarkably clearly the intact marsupium 

 divided into a number of little compartments 

 or marsupial pockets, as I may call them, 

 each containing one nipple. I should like 

 to mention here that this specimen belongs 

 to the British Museum, the officials of which 



Fig. 16. — The Marsupial Pockets of an Adult 

 Female "Sminthopsis crassicaudata." 



were so kind as to place at my disposal a 

 large mass of material. Another case of 

 marsupial pockets is represented in Fig. 18, 

 after a drawing by Klaatsch, taken from a 

 female Trichosurus. In this specimen the 

 marsupium has been opened up and contains 

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