SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
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NEW YORK WEASEL IN WINTER. 
A blood-thirsty cousin of the Otter and the Mink. 
Range: This and related species found all over 
United States and Canada. Habitat Group in 
American Museum of Natural History. 
undeveloped and are immediately placed by the mother 
in an external pouch, where they continue to grow until 
they are too large to get into their mother’s pocket ; then 
they frequently ride upon their mother’s back, clinging 
to her fur with their finger-like toes and wrapping their 
tails about their mother’s tail. The Opossum is the only 
animal in this country the young of which are carried 
around in the mother’s pocket, and the only one which 
has a prehensile tail ; that is, one used for coiling around 
and clinging to branches, and the like. Its food is vari- 
ous, consisting of both animal and plant material — in- 
sects, young birds, pawpaws, persimmons, etc. In the 
