NAKED-TAILED OPOSSUM. 
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and with two small white spots on the forehead : tail with the 
fur less extended on the basal portion than usual, about half 
an inch only being clothed. 
Inhabits Brazil and Guiana. 
This species is nearly allied to the D. Quica and the D. 
Opossum, hut in both those animals fur like that of the 
body is extended for at least two inches on to the root of the 
tail, whereas in the present sj)ecies not more than half an 
inch of the tail is clothed with fur. Its feet are rather 
longer than in D. Quica, The fur is very short, and dense ; 
its prevailing hue on the hack of the animal is brownish, hut 
it is slightly pencilled with white ; on the sides of the body 
the fur assumes a brighter hue, being suffused with sienna 
vellow—most distinctly so on the sides of the neck: the 
under parts of the body are white or cream-colour, but here 
and there tinted with yellow. The upper surface of the head, 
and the sides of the muzzle, are brownish black; the upper 
part of the latter is brown ; on the forehead are two small 
white spots, which are separated from each other by a space 
of about half an inch in width 1 . A small rusty yellow spot 
is observed near the anterior angle of the ear ; the hairs near 
the ear-opening are dusky: the cheeks are yellowish white, 
and so are the chin and throat. The ears are large, ovate, 
and of a brownish colour. The hairs of the moustaches are 
black. The limbs are coloured externally like the sides of 
the body; internally they are white, or nearly so. The tail 
is about equal in length to that of the head and body taken 
together, and of a brown colour, excepting the apical portion, 
which is white ; the white occupies as much as five inches of 
the tail, but often is less extended. 
1 The large pale spots on the forehead of D. Quica have a dark space 
between them of not more than a quarter of an inch in width, in the full- 
grown animal. 
