MAMMALIA. FERiE. Opoflum. 



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ders; the reft of the tail is black; all the under parts of the body are of a tawny buff, which is deep- 

 eft on the throat, where the bottom of the hairs is rufty brown. 



18. Spotted Opoflum. — Didetphh maculata. 



The body is black and fpotted with white; the tail is very bufhy ; and the female is 

 furniihed with a pouch. 



Spotted OpofTum. Gov. Phillips voy. p. 147. and plate. 



Inhabits New South Wales.— This animal meafures fifteen inches, from the muzzle to the rump, 

 and the tail about nine : The general colour of the animal is black, inclining to brown on the under 

 parts, the neck and body being fpotted with irregular roundiih white patches ; the ears are large, e- 

 recl, open, and pointed ; the muzzle is long, pointed, and garniihed with very long whifkers at the 

 nofe ; the fore and hind legs, from the wrift and heels, are am coloured, and almolt naked, having 

 five toes on each, armed with long, fharp, black claws, except the thumb, or great toe, of the hind 

 foot, which is higher up the foot than the reft, and has no claw ; the firft inch and half of the tail is 

 covered with fhort hair, with one or two fmall white or grey fpots; the reft, to the end, is very bufhy, 

 with long coarfe hairs, difpofed fomewhat like that of a Squirrel. The female has fix teats placed cir- 

 cularly, within a pouch, or falfe belly. 



19. Flying Opoflum. — Didelpbis volant, 



Has a broad hairy membrane, which extends from the middle of the fore legs to the 

 ankle joint of the hind legs, and does not include the tail. 

 Elack flying OpofTum. Gov. Phillips voy. p. 297. and plate, n. 55. 



Inhabits New South Wales.— This animal meafures twenty inches, from the nofe to the rump, and 

 the tail twenty-two : It is of a glofly black colour, nightly mixed with grey hairs, with a tawny fpot 

 on each hip ; the under parts are white ; along the middle of the back is a kind of mane, confuting 

 of coarfer and longer hairs ; the tail is thick at the bafe, where it is of a light colour, and grows gra- 

 dually fmaller and blacker to the end ; in the upper jaw are four fmall fore-teeth, and on each fide 

 two tufks, and five grinders ; in the lower jaw, two fore-teeth, no tuflcs, and five grinders on each 

 fide, placed very far back ; the fore paws have each five toes, armed with claws ; the hind feet have 

 four toes armed with claws, and a diftant unarmed thumb ; the two firft toes, next the thumb, on 

 the hind feet, are clofely attached together, the next is not quite fo much, and the laft is quite free. 



The Lemur volans, or Flying Maucauco, feems nearly allied to this Jpecies ; from which it differs 

 however, in having the tail involved in the membrane.— T. 



XX. MOLE,— 19. TALPJ. iff. 



Has fix unequal fore-teeth in the upper, and eight in the low- 

 er jaw; one tufk on each fide in each jaw; feven grinders 

 on each fide above, and fix below. 



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