OPOSSUM. 
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Mus fylveftris aihericanus Sea - 211. i45.MuR.IifE.> 
lopes di&us Seb. Muf. I. 46. tab. Didelphis murina. D. cauda fe- 
xxxi. fig. 1, 2. mipiloia, mammis fenis. Lin.fyfi. 
Philander iaturate fpadjeeus in 72. 
dorfo, in ventre dilute flavus, La Marmofe de Buffon , A. 330. 
pedibus albicantibus Brijfon quad. tab. lii. liii. 
O. with long broad ears rounded at the end, thin 
and naked: eyes encompaffed with black : face, 
head, and upper part of the body, of a tawny co¬ 
lor : the belly yellowifh white: the feet covered 
with Ihort whitifh hair: toes formed like thofe of 
the preceding: tail (lender, covered with minute 
feales to the very rump : length, from nofe to tail, 
about fix inches and a half; tail of the fame length : 
the female wants the falfe belly of the former; but, 
on the lower part, the fkin forms on each fide a 
fold, between which the teats are lodged. 
This fpecies varies in color : I have feen one from 
Guiana , brown above, white beneath. 
Inhabits the hot parts of South America: agrees 
with the others in its food, manners, and the pre- 
henfile powers of its tail: it brings from ten to four¬ 
teen young at a time ^ at left, in fome fpecies, there 
are that number of teats : the young affix them- 
felves to the teats as foon as they are born, and re¬ 
main attached, like fo many inanimate things, ’till 
they attain growth and vigor to fhift a little for 
themfelves. 
Cayopollia 
