488 LEMURINE OPOSSUM. 
manner of life they resemble the rest of this ge- 
nus^ feeding on small birds, vegetables, &c. In 
feeding they often sit in the manner of a squirrel, 
holding their food in their hands. 
In Mr. White's Journal of a Voyage to New 
South Wales we have a description of this species 
by the late Mr. John Hunter, containing some 
remarks relative to the appearance of the teeth, 
which cannot fail to be interesting to every ana- 
tomist. 
This animal (says Mr. Hunter) is about the 
size of a Raccoon, is of a dark grey colour on the 
back, becoming lighter on the sides, which ter- 
minates in a rich brown on the belly. The hair 
is of two kinds, a long hair, and a kind of fur, 
and even the long hair, at the roots, is of the fur 
kind. 
The head is short; the eyes rather promi- 
nent; the ears broad, not peaked. 
The teeth resemble those of all the animals 
from that country I have ever seen. 
The incisors are not continued into the 
grinders by intermediate teeth, although there 
are two teeth in the intermediate space in the up- 
per jaw, and one in the lower. The incisors are 
similar to those of the Kangaroo, and six in num- 
ber in the upper jaw, opposed by two in the 
lower, which have an oblique surface extending 
some distance from their edge, so as to increase 
the surface of contact. 
There are two cuspidati on each side in the 
upper jaw, and only one in the lower ; five grinders 
