that of a fmall or half-grown domeftic rat. Its 
color is a pale yellow-brown, and its hair is of a 
coarfer or more harfti appearance than in the reft of 
the fmaller Opoffums: the ears are rounded : the 
tail rather long. When viewed in a curfory manner 
the animal bears a diftant refemblance to a pig in 
miniature. I firft obferved this fpecies in the Mu- 
feum of the late Mr. John Hunter, and from the 
fpecirnen there preferved the prefent figure is taken. 
It is reprefented in its natural fize. I have alfo feen 
drawings of the fame fpecies in the collection of 
Mr. White, Chief Surgeon to the Settlement at 
Botany Bay, who prefented the above-mentioned 
fpecirnen to Mr. Hunter. 
