ASH-COLOURED OPOSSUM. 
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size, of a more rufous tint, has the sides of the head, neck, 
and body, suffused with hoary grey, and the tail with nearly 
one-half naked. It inhabits Brazil (Barra). 
DIDELPHYS CINEKEA. 
Ash-coloured Opossum. 
Didelphis cinerea. Temminck, Mongraphies de Mammalogie, tom. i. p. 46. 
“ “ Pr. Maxim. Beitrage zur Naturgeschicte Braziliens, ii. 
p. 406. 
“ “ Wagner., in Schreber’s Sangth. Suppl. iii. p. 47. 
“ u Cuvier, Regne Animal (1829), p. 177. 
Fur short, dense, and of a cotton-like texture ; general colour 
ashy grey, the hack slightly suffused with black ; under parts 
impure white; eyes encircled with hlack; tail with rather 
more than one-fifth of its length clothed with fur like that 
on the body, the naked portion at first brown, but with the 
greater portion white. The female somewhat suffused with 
rusty yellow. 
Inhabits Brazil. 
M. Temminck describes this animal as follows:—Size about 
equal to that of the Black Bat (Mus Rattus) ; head small, 
muzzle very short; ears somewhat contracted at the base, 
naked ; tail much longer than the head and body taken 
together, very slender, and well clothed with fur at the base, 
the remaining portions perfectly naked; the extremity white, 
the white occupying more than half of the length of the tail. 
Females destitute of pouch. 
The fur is dense, but short, and of a cotton-like texture; 
in the males it is of an ashy grey colour, but the extreme 
points of the hairs are suffused with blackish; the under 
parts of the body, as well as the inner surface of the limbs, 
