SPOTTED OPOSSUM, 
limbs, being all over spotted with large patches 
of white, in no very regular form. 
Mr. Hunter, who considers the Brown VI- 
verrine Opossum to be merely a variety of this 
Black and - T "hite Spotted species, differing 
only in colour, has thus minutely described it. 
" This animal, " says he, " is of the size 
of a Rat ; and has very much the appearance 
of the Martin Cat, but is hardly so long in 
the body in proportion to it's size. 
" The head is flat forwards, and broad front 
^ide to side-; especially, between the eyes and 
ears. The nose is peaked, and projecting be- 
yond the teeth ; which makes the upper jaw 
appear to be considerably longer than the 
lower. The eyes are pretty large. The ears 
are broad; especially, at their base : not be- 
coming regularly narrower to a point, nor 
with a very smooth edge- and having a small, 
process on the concave, or inner surface, near 
the base. It has long whiskers from the sides 
of the cheeks, which begin forwards near the 
$iose, by small and short hairs, and become 
longer 
