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IUDKLPIiVS 
yellow ; cheeks, and sides of the neck and body, suffused 
with yellow ; eyes encircled with black, the black much 
.extended in front of the eye : ears naked, of a brown colour, 
and tolerably large size : tail rather longer than the head and 
body taken together, with the basal half brown, and the 
terminal half whitish ; about half an inch at the base clothed 
with fur like that on the body. 
In size and general colouring this species approaches the 
Didelphys rincrca , but in that animal the fur is described as 
short, and of a cotton-like texture, whilst in the present 
species the lmirs of the fur are longer than usual, being 
more than half an inch in length, and they are less dense. 
Both on the upper and under parts of the body they are grey 
next the skin, whilst in most of the small Opossums the fur 
on the abdomen is uniform in tint throughout. As compared 
with D. ci/terra , another point of distinction is presented in 
the British Museum animal, its tail having a very small space 
at the root which is clothed with fur—a space of ut most 
half an inch in length, whilst in /). cintrrea a space of 
upwards of two inches on the tail (according to Tcmminck) 
is clothed with fur. 
Malic. 
Inchc-t. l.iti'**. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail ... G 9 
“ of tail. 7 3 
" from tip of nose to car ... ... 1 6 
44 of fore foot ... ... . 8 
'* of hind ditto... ... ... ... 1 0 
4 of ear ... ... ... . 8 
