MAMMALIA. FER2E. Opoflum. 197 



Phalanger. Sm. Buff. vii. 174. pi. ccxvii. ccxviii. Penn. hift. of quad, n. 190. — Coefcoes. Va- 

 lent. Ind. iii. 272. 



Inhabits the Eaft Indian iilands, and perhaps likewife in New Holland. — This animal refembles the 

 Squirrel in its voice and mode of feeding, and is extremely timid : The female has two or four teats, 

 and brings as many young at a birth, having no pouch : The head is very thick, with a blunt noie, 

 and fhort, hairy ears ; the legs are very fhort, and the toes have long, crooked, ftrong claws ; the 

 two firft toes of the hind feet are attached together, and the hind paws have diftinft thumbs with 

 flat nails ; in the male the upper parts of the body are of a reddilh brown, mixed with aih colour, 

 with a black line down the hind part of the head and middle of the back; all the hinder parts of the 

 body being very dark coloured ; in the female, the fur is much marked with white ; in both, the 

 belly, throat, legs, and part of the tail, are of a dirty yellowiih white : In the upper jaw there are 

 eight cutting teeth, and only two in the lower. 



14. Javaa Opoflum. — 10. Didelphis Brunii. 10. 



The hind legs are much longer than the fore, and have only three toes on each ; the 

 tail is fhort and naked. Schreber, iii. 551. t. cliii. Pallas, aft. Petrop. ii. 229. t. ix. 



Javan Opoffura. Penn. hift. of quad, n. 183 — Filander. Le Brun, voy. to E. Ind. Eng. edit. ii. 

 101. t. ccxiii. 



Inhabits the ifland of JaVa.— This animal is about the fize of a Hare, with a narrow Fox-like, head, 

 having upright pointed ears, and a brown ftripe paffing through the orbits acrofs the face ; the up- 

 per jaw has fix fore-teeth, and the lower only two, and there are no tufks in either jaw ; the fore 

 legs are very fhort, with five toes on each ; the hind legs are very long, having two very large, ftrong 

 toes, and one very fmall one on the outfide, which is found to confift of two fets of bones, and to 

 have two clofely united {lender claws; the belly is furnifhed with a complete pouch for the reception 

 of the young. From the ftrufture of the legs, this animal leaps, inftead of walking, in the manner 

 of the Jerboas : They are kept, In Java, along with rabbits, in inclofures, and burrow in the ground. 



15. Kanguru.— 1 1. Didelphis gigantea. 10. 

 The tail is long, thick, tapering, and hairy ; the hind legs are very long, and furnifhed 



with three toes; the ears are erect, and the body is very large. Schreber,' iii. 552. 



r. cliv. 



Kanguroo, or Kanguruh. Cook's voy. iii. 577. t. xx. Hawkefworth, voy. iii. 174. t. 51. Penn. 

 hift. of quad. n. 184.— Gigantic Jerboa.' Zimmerman, 526 — Macropus giganteus, or Great Kan. 

 guroo. Nat. mifc, pi. 33. 



Inhabits the weftern fide of New Holland— The head, neck, and fhoulders of this animal are fmall,. 

 but the hinder part of the body is large and thick ; the head and body are above three feet long' 

 when full grown, the tail two feet nine inches ; it fometimes weighs above eighty pounds : The head 

 k long and tapering, the upper lip divided, and the end of the nofe black ; the ears are thin, oval, 

 ereft, and covered with fhort hair; there are no tufks in either jaw; in the upper jaw are four broad 

 fore-teeth, {landing perpendicular to the jaw; the lower jaw is fhorter than the upper, and has only two 



long 



