204 
OPOSSUM, 
XXH.OPOS- 
SUM. 
144. Virgi¬ 
nian. 
Two canine teeth in each jaw. 
Cutting teeth unequal in number in each jaw 
F ive toes on each foot: hind feet formed like a 
hand, with a diftindt thumb. 
Tail very long, (lender, and naked. 
Tlaquatzin Hernandez Mex. 330. Le manicou Feuillee obf. Peru. III. 
Caragueya (faem.) Tai-ibi (mas.) 206. 
Marcgrarve Brafil, 222. Raiijyn. Wood-rat. du Pratz Louifiana, II. 
quad. 182. 185. ~ 65. 
Semi-vul-pa Gefner quad. 870. Mas marfupialis ; fylveftris Bra- 
icon. An. 90. filienfis Beutel ratze. Klein quad . 
Opoffum Ph. < Zr. abridg. II. 884. 59. 
tab. 13. III. 593. La^wfon Caro- Philander faturate fpadiceus in 
Una, 120. Beverley s Virginia, 133. dorfo, in ventre flavus, macalis 
Catefiy Carolina. App, xxix. Roche- fupra oculos flavis. BriJJbn quad, 
fort Antilles, X. 283. 207. 
jFara ouRavall, Camilla Orenoque, Didelphis marfupialis. D. mam- 
III. 238. mis o6to intra abdomen. Lin.fyji. 
Vulpes major putoria cauda te- 71. 
reti et glabra. Barr ere France JE- Le Sarigue ou L’Oppoflum de 
quin. 166. Buffon, X. tab. x lv. xlvi. 
O. with a long fharp pointed nofe: large, round, 
naked, and very thin ears : fmall, black, lively eyes: 
long ftiff hairs each fide the nofe, and behind the 
eyes : face covered with fhort foft hairs of a dufky 
color : above each eye a large white fpot: cheeks 
whitifh: lides of the neck of a dirty yellow : hind 
part of the neck and the back covered with hair 
above two inches long; foft, but uneven *, the bot¬ 
toms of a yellowifh white, middle part black, ends 
whitifh: fides covered with dirty and dufky hairs; 
belly, with foft, woolly, dirty white hair: legs 
and thigh's black : feet dufky : claws white : bafe 
of the tail, for near three inches, clothed with long 
hairs like thofe on the back *, reft of the tail covered 
* This fpecies has ten cutting teeth above eight beneath. 
with 
