OPOSSUM. 
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S49.M£rian *, De zak, of BeursRot. Merian in- in dorfo gerens Klein quad . 5$. 
fedi. Surinam 66. Ixvi. Didelphis dorligera. D. cauda 
Mus fylvellris americana Seb. bah pilofa corpore longiore, di- 
Miif. I. 49. tab. xxxi. Jig. q. gitis manuum muticis. Lin.fyjl , 
Philander ex rufo helvus in dor- 72. 
fo, in ventre ex flavo albicans. Le Philandre de Surinam de Buf- 
Briffbn quad. 2x2. fon 3 XV. 157. 
Mus fylveliris Americanus, catulos 
V.. 
O. with long, (harp pointed niaked ears: head, and 
and upper part of the body of a yellowifh brown 
, 'color : the belly white, tinged with yellow : the 
fore feet divided into five fingers; the hind into 
four, and a thumb, each furnifhed with flat nails: 
tail very long, (lender, and, except at the bafe, 
’quite naked. 
Inhabits Surinam : burrows under ground : bringl 
five or fix young at a time, which follow their pa¬ 
rent : on any apprehenfion of danger, they all jump 
on her back, and twilling their tails round her’s, fhe'" 
immediately runs with them into her hole. 
* From Merian 3 a German Paintrefs, who ixrft difeovored 
jpecies at Suriucm, 
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