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DIDELPHIS BREVICEPS.-Bej.nett 
SYNONYME. 
Didelphis Breviceps. — Bennett, Zool. Proc. for 1833, p. 40. 
description . 
Allied to D. Virginianus ; much smaller size and 
narv woolly hairs of the body white at base, the apical half, brownish 
black. Beyond this woolly hair there is an abundance 
bristly white hairs on the upper parts and sides of the body. Head 
throat, and under parts of body brownish, the hairs being white, with he 
tips brown. Lips white ; a broad white dash under the eye, joining the 
white lips • a longitudinal brownish stripe extending from the eye towards 
The tip of the muzzle ; brownish black hairs also surround the eye On 
the crown of the head there are long white hairs, interspersed like those 
of the body, but shorter. Bars black, naked, the apex whitish ; limbs 
and feet brown-black; tail with minute bristly hairs, springing iom 
between the scales ; the basal half of the tail apparently blackish, 
the apical half whitish. 
dimensions. 
From point of nose to insertion of tail, 
Tail, - 
Tarsus to end of longest claw, 
Ear to point of nose, 
Height of ear posteriorly, 
Longest bristly hairs on the back, - 
Inches. 
12 
11 
2 
3 
1 
3 
Lines. 
6 
1 
geographical distribution. 
California. (Bennett.) 
