MEXICAN, AND CAYENNE' Ot»POSStJM. 4 S3 
Mexican opossum. 
This animal has large, angular, naked, and 
transparent ears ; its nose is thicker than that of 
the former kind ; its whiskers are very large; a 
slight border of black surrounds its eyes ; its face 
is of a dirty white 3 with a dark line running down 
the middle ; the hair on the head and upper part 
of the body is ash-coloured at the roots, but of a 
deep tawny brown at the tips ; its legs ate dusky > 
its claws white ; its belly dull cinereous ; its tail 
is long, and pretty thick, varied with brown and 
yellow ; hairy for about an inch at its origin, the 
rest naked. The length of the animal and of its 
tail are the same, each about nine inches \ the tail 
is prehensile, and serves instead of a hand. 
This species inhabits the mountains of Mexico, 
and lives on trees, where it brings forth its young. 
When in any fright, they embrace their parent 
closely ; and she carries them along with her 
wherever she goes. 
Cayenne opossum. 
Tiie Cayenne opossum has a long, slender face± 
Cars erect and pointed, but short ; its coat is 
woolly, but mixed with very coarse hairs, thred 
inches long, of a dirty white from the roots to the 
middle, and thence to the ends of A deep brown ; 
its sides and belly are of a pale yellow 7 ; its -legs 
of a dusky brown ; it has a thumb on each fdot, 
distinct from the toes ; on the toes of the fore feet> 
and thumb of the hind, there are nails ; on the tOcs 
of the hind feet therle are crooked claws ; its tail 
is very long, naked, and Scaly, A young one mea- 
sured above sixteen inches, and its tail about 
fifteen. It inhabits Cayenne, the country from 
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