520 
D1DKLPHYS TRICOLOR*. 
both the outer and inner surfaces. The tail, iu like manner, 
has minute scattered hairs, and these are of a blackish brown 
hue on the upper surface of the organ in question, and brown 
on the under : fur, like that on the body, extends on the basal 
portion of the tail, covering a space of about one-third of an 
inch in length. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from tip of uose to root of tail ... 4 3 
1 
“ from tip of nose to ear ... ... I 01 
** of ear ... ... ... . 3 
** of hind foot and claws ... ... Si 
DIDELPHYS TRICOLOR. 
Tricoloured Opossum. 
Did tip his tricolor. (Glokk.) Desm.. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., ix. 
p. 429. 
“ 4 ‘ Tehm. Mouogr. i. p. 52. 
“ brachyura. Pallas, Act. Petrop. Ann. 1780. ii. p. 235, Tab. 5. 
Lc Touan. Berr., Hist. Nat. Suppl. rii. p. 252, Tab. 61. 
Head large ; tail about equal in length to half that of the trunk of 
the animal : fur short ; on the upper parts of the head ami 
body, black, obscurely pencilled with white ; on the sides of 
the body deep rusty red, and on the under parts, white. 
Inhabits Guiana. 
Th© Tricoloured Opossum is readily distinguished by its 
short tail, combined with the tlireo distinct colours of black 
(or nearly black), rusty red, and white, with which its body 
is adorned. Its fur is dense, and very short, and of a grey 
hue next the skin, both on the upper and under parts of the 
body; on the buck th© visible portions of the hairs are black, 
