MAMMALIA. FERiE- Didelphis 67 
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yura Tail fhort, hairy; tars naked; pouch o; body rufous. 
^ 'short-tailed Opojjwn. 
ninbits the woods of South America; from 3 to 52 inches long, 
tail half the length; brings g — 10 young. 
Snout longer than D.opolfum ; fur loft, gloll'y, bciutlfully red 
by the lides or the head and body. 
Tail hairy from the bafe to the middle, prehenftle, longer 
than the body ; two middle toes of the hind-feet united. 
Phalanger. 
inhabits the Molucca ijlarids, probably Mew Holland.; timid, 
refembling the fquirrel in voice and manner of eating ; teats 
^ — 4) as many young, 
Mead convex, thick; ear.:, md feet flrort; claws long, curved; 
a black line down the hind part of tin; head and middle of the 
back ; Jore-teelh upper 8, lower a. 
Tail fhort, naked; hind-feet longcft, 3-toed. 
Javan Opajfum. 
Inhabits Java ; kept in inclofures with rabbits ; burrows, and 
is the fize of a hare. 
Head narrow; ears upright, pointed; acrofs the face and 
through the orbits a brown ftripe; fore-teeth upper 6, lower 
e ; ti^s o ; fore-legs flrort, jj^toed; belly with a pouch. 
Sw.ea, 
Tail long, thick ; hind-feet three times as long as the fore, 
3-toed. Kanguroo. 
Inhabits New Holland ; when full grown as large as a Iheep ; 
leaps, burrows, eats like a fquirrel ; feeds on fruit and vege- 
tables ; flcflr good. 
Body yellowifli-grey ; head more obtule than any other fpecics; 
Carr long; tritu it fore part (lender, hind part rob uft; upper 
lip cleft ; nofe black at the point ; ears thin, oval, erstt, with 
fhort hair ; fore-teeth upper 6 broad, lower 2 fliarp, moveable ; 
tujks o\ 4 each fide, far back; cfiza's of the fore- 
feet long, black ; middle claw of the hinddeet prominent,, 
e-xceedingly large. 
Tail long, tapering, hairy; hind-legs long, 3-toed; ears 
rounded. Kanguroo Rat. 
Inhabits New South Wales : fize of a rat. 
Fore-teeth upper 8, two middle ones fharper, lower 2 long, 
pointed; grinders 3 each fide, foremolt channelled, fur 
Cnooth, dark-brown. 
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