T H E 
PORCULINE OPOSSUM. 
Generic Character. 
Teeth numerous, fmall. 
Abdominal Pouch in the female. 
Specific Character. 
Subferruginous OPOSSUM, whitifh. beneath, 
with longifh tail; the fore-feet pentadadly- 
lous with very fmall exterior claws ; the 
hind-feet tetradadlylous with the two interior 
toes united. 
In reality it is more properly a fpecies of Macropus 
than Id idel phis. 
This fpecies, hitherto undeferibed, is a native of 
New Holland, and is remarkable for a thicker or 
more corpulent habit than others of the genus. The 
hind legs are confiderably longer than the fore-legs, 
and have, in miniature, the form of thofe of the 
Kanguroo and fome other Auftralafian quadrupeds ; 
though the middle claws are far lefs in proportion : 
the interior ones are double, or both covered by a 
common fkin. The fize of this fpecies is nearly 
that 
