NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Quadrupeds. 
I'he Kangooroo has been particularly dejcribed already^ 
The Spotted Opossum. 
The annexed plate reprefents a fmall animal of the 
opoffum kind J which has not before been delineated. 
It is perhaps the fame which is flightly defcribed in 
Captain Cook's firft voyage as refembling a polecat, 
having the back fpotted with white ; and is there faid 
to be called by the natives ^/o//.- The colour however' 
is darker, being rather black than brown » 
The Spotted Opojpumy for fo it may properly be 
named, is in length from the nofe to the extremity of 
the tail about twenty-five inches, of which the tail itfelf 
takes up about nine or ten, The general colour of the 
animal is black, inclining to brown beneath ; the neck 
and body fpotted with irregular roundifli patches of 
v/hite ; the ears are pretty large, and ftand ere(51:, the 
viiage is pointed, the muzzle furniflied with long flender 
hairs ; the fore, as well as hind legs, from the knees 
downward, aimoft naked, and afh-coloured ; on the fore 
feet are five claws, and on the hind, four and a thumb 
without a claw ; the tail, for about an inch and an half 
from the root, covered with hairs of the fame length as 
H7 
CHAP, 
XV. 
Hawkcfvv. iii. p. 22a 
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