OPOSSUM. 
209 
Philander ex ruFoluteus in dorfo, Klein quad. 58. 
in ventre ex fiavo albicans, ca- Le Phalanger de Buffon> xiii. g2. 
pite cralfo. Brijfon quad. 213. Seh. tab . x. xi. 
Muf. I. 50. tab. xxxi. fig. 8. 
O. with a thick nofe : fhort ears, covered with hair: 
eight cutting teeth in the upper jaw*, two in the 
lower: hair on the upper part of the body reddifh, 
mixed with light afii color, and yellow: the hind 
part of the head, and middle of the back, marked 
with a black line: the throat, belly, legs, and 
part of the tail, of a dirty yellowifh white; the reft 
of the tail brown and yellow: the body of the fe¬ 
male marked with white: the firit and fecond toes of 
the hind feet clofely united: the claws large : the 
thumb on the hind feet diftind, like that of the 
other fpecies : the bottom of the tail is covered with 
hair, for near two inches and a half; the reft naked i 
the length, from nofe to tail, near nine inches 3 the 
tail ten. 
Inhabits Surinam: perhaps may be the fpecies 
the colonifts call the Cane Rat % which is fo deftruc- 
tive to thefugar canes*. 
* - Bancroft Guiana , 143. 
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