C ^ j ■ 
- flight be exiled, ni9ji>^Ao«!7z^|3. or ^AA^-mpcC'm&nzi^; 
• though he'teils us, That the Akpecopithecm and Chmna^ 
|)y Cardan and Scaliger^ are taken to be diliereoe Ani- 
mals. 
Upon the whole, fince it is an Animal fui Generis^ 
and in (everal Pares having a great Rcfembiaoce to thofe 
of different Species ; I think, a Denomination might be 
beft given to it, from that: Particular, wherein 'tis moQ. 
■ diftioguiflied from all others which \s thar remarkable 
Pouch or Marfuptum it has in trie Belly into which, up^ 
■ on any Occafion of Danger, it can receive its. Young, 
Not that it is a Vterus, or the Young Ones are bred 
there (this Miftake we fliall dear up, when we come to 
the Difleftion) : But Nature has only formed this Part 
for that Particular Vfe of receiving or emittifig, at Pica- 
fare, the Young Broody till fuch time as they are able 
to provide better for themfelves. 
This Confideration (it being fo diftioguifhing a.Cha* 
rader of this Animal from all others, that as yet we know 
of,) makes me mo9L inclinable to find out fome Name, 
that might be moll expreffive thereof ; nor can ! think 
of, at prefent, a better, than to call it, Marfupiale Ame- 
ricmum. If upon Obfervation (as very likely) there 
iliould be found different Species of thefe Animalia Cru- 
menata, ^sJul,C(efScaliger(j) calls them, by an Epi« 
thite, they may be fubdivided. 
Billiop Wilkins (i), and Mr. Ray (o) too,in his Synopfis 
Ammalium, places this Animal amongft the Dog-Kind, 
6utL Fifo (h) faith 'tis, " Beftiola majorum Glirium Mon^ 
tanorum numero afcrilenda : And Cardan faidi (i), 
" Mittit & India Occidentalis Chiarcham e Muflelino 
" Genere. 1 am apt to thmk it may be reduced lo the 
(r) De Subtilitate ad Cardan. Emc, 206, p, tn, 277. (s) Real Cham^er^ 
J'arP 2. c. jf). 159. 
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