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or without a Thumb ; they may be reduced hither, my 
chief Defign in this Scheme being (as near as I could) to 
include all thofe Animals that are obferved to climb or 
live on Trees^ into a Clafs together 5 and they being ob- 
ferved to have their CUvps^ either all or many of them^ 
formed like Fingers^ I place them therefore under this 
general Title of AntmaUn y.^es^civ]vK2. 
Now, begging pardon for this DigrefGon, we (hall 
proceed in our Obfervations on the Male Opffmn^ ^mit* 
ted in the account given of the Female^ and here we 
fhall be brief. 
Therefore pag. 112. in defcribing the F.ars^ I had not 
an opportunity of obferving that vohite Ri^m thzt Incir- 
cles them, which is very beautiful i for when in Health, 
for the breadth of two lines or more, there runs an 
Edging round the Verge of the Ear of a perfeft Mill^ white. 
Colour. But the Ear here being fo very thin and ten- 
der, 'tis eafily afFecied by cold or illncfs, and then this 
white part becomes jagged and crimpled, as if burnt up, 
and the whitenefs difappears 5 as it happened in this laft 
fubjeS: before its death, as well as the firft, which occa* 
fioned my not obfervitig it then* Tis on this account 
that Margrave in his Defcriptioo of the Tauibi of Brafk^ 
which now I take to be the MaleOpoffkm^ faith, it has A^i- 
res fubrotandas^ malles^ graciles albas ^tener as ut Charta moUes^ 
not that the whole Ear was White ^ but only the Edges. 
But what I was moft defirous to know, was whether 
the Male had that Marfupum or Fouch for receiving the 
Young, as is afErmed by feme I have named fag. 12^. 
Mr Cowper in the Subjeft he differed, neither obferved 
the Pouch not the files belonging to it, as has been 
defcribed in the Female : Nor indeed did I in that I dif 
fefted. Only this I took notice of when firft I had it 5 
that the Skjn here feemed to be loofer y fo that with my 
finger I could eafily thruft it in, and by turning ic round, 
could form for theprefent a Pot/ch- 5 but this would eafily 
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