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BIDELPHTID^. 



J Ad. sk. 

 • 1 Skeleton. 

 /. liead in al. 

 „ jAd. al. Iq 



, . i Ad. P & vff. sks. I 

 ^>'- i Skull of. ^^ I 

 / Ad. skull. 



h. Ad. al., c? . 



^. Ad. skull, S. 



m. Ad. al., ? . 



n. Ad. al., j . 



o-y. Imm. 5 &yg. cjjal. 



r, s. Skulls. 



iAd. St.) 

 *• ) Skull, f °- 

 Vr-w. Skeletons (mounted) 



Better Hope, Denae- 



rara. 

 Surinam. 

 Guayaq^uil, Ecuador. 



Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 



Bolivia. 

 Chico, Argentina. 



Taquara, Rio Grande 



do Sul. 

 Taquara, Rio Grande 



do Sul. 



(Described by 

 No history. 



Rev. W. Y. Turner 



[GJ. 

 Mr. Bartlett [C.]. 

 Sir B. Belcher [P. & 



0.]. 

 T.Bndges,Esq.[C.]. 



ZooLSoc. (C.Eriend, 



Esq^[P.]). 

 Dr. H. von Ihering 



[0.1. 

 Dr. H. von Ihering 



[0.1. 

 Mr. Waterhouae, I. c.) 



Lidth de Jeude Coll. 

 Lidth de Jeude CoU. 

 Purchased. 



Purchased. 



3. Didelpliys nudicaudata. 



Didelphys nudicaudata, E. Geoff. Cat. Mm. p. 142 (1803) ; Desm. 



JV. Diet. d!m N. (2) ix. p. 424 (1817) ; id. Mamm. i. p. 257 (1820) ; 



Schinz, Cuv. Thierr. i. p. 887 (1821) ; Besmoul. Diet. Class. d!H. N. 



V. p. 491 (1824) ; Desm. Diet. 8oi. Nat. xlvii. p. 390 (1827) ; 



Gray, Oriff. Cuv. An. K. v. p. 189 (1627) ; Less. Man. Mamm. 



p. 212 (1827) ; J. B. Fiseh. Syn. Mamm. p. 265 (1829) ; Less. 



H. N. Mamm. {Ccmpl. Buff.) v. p. 364 (1836) ; Waterh. Jard. Nat. 



lAbr., Mamm. xi. p. 94, pL ii. (animal) (1841) ; Less. N. Tahl. 



R. A., Mamm. p. 186 (1842) ; Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 482 



(1846) ; Oieb. Saug. p. 710 (1859) ; Oerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. 



B. M. p. 139 (1862) ; Tlws. P. Z. 8. 1882, p. Ill ; I^d. Cat. Foss. 



Mamm. B. M. v. p. 281 (1887). 

 Didelphys myosurus, Temm. Mon. Mamm. i. p. 38 (1827*) (deser. 



orig.); Wied, Beiti\ Nat. Bras. ii. p. 400 (1826); Less. Man. 



Mamm. p. 210 (1827) ; Waffn. Schr. Saug. Supp. iii. p. 43 (1843), 



V. p. 225 (1855) ; Tseh. Faun. Permna, Mamm. 'p. 145 (1844) ; 



Schinx, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 501 (1844) ; Frantz. Arch.f. Nat. xxxv. 



p. 317 (1869) ; Natt. Pelz. Bras. Sduff., Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxxiii. 



Anh. p. Ill (1883). 

 Didelphys frenata, LAcht. apud Wagn. Schr. Saug. Supp, iii. p. 44 



(footnote) (1843). 

 Plulander nudicaudus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 100 (1843). 

 Didelphys (Metachirus) myosurus, Burm. Thiere Bras. i. p. 135 



(1854). 

 Metachirus myosurus, Burm. Erldut. Faun. Bras. p. 69, pi. x. 



(animal) (1856). 



Eat-tailbd Oposstjm. 



Size barely equalling that of D. opossum, but form slenderer and 

 extremities much longer in proportion. Fur very short, straight and 



* See above, p. 195 (footnote). 



