GREAT WOOD MOUSE ^ 
OF AMERICA. ; 
From the curious manner in which this, 
animal is seen to carry it's young — conveying, 
them on it's back, .'with their respective tails 
all encircling it's own — we are not a little 
surprised to find it noticed by so few modern 
naturalists. 
Buchoz, however, in his celebrated Dons 
Merveilleux de la Nature, has furnished us 
with the annexed figure, which we consider 
as too interesting to be neglected in a professed 
collecTtion of the Curiosities of Nature. 
But, though Buchoz calls it the Surinam 
Kat, we are not inclined to follow him in that 
appellation. Tlie Philander, or Phalanger, 
has by some naturalists been erroneously de- 
nominated the Rat of Surinam, which is an 
undoubted Opossum ; and these writers have 
been much censured for so egrcgiously mis- 
taking an animal decidedly diflcicnt from every 
species 
