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lined figure in the corner of the plate. On laying open 
by incifion this receptacle, I found on each fide a young 
one in the fituation reprefented in the fketch, and very 
large in proportion to the parent animal: they were 
totally deftitute of hair, and confequently had not ap- 
proached to the period of their fecond birth. I fhould 
obferve, that in fuch {pecimens as were not ina pregnant 
{tate, the mamm~e appeared extremely fmall, and were 
only four in number. The tongue in this animal is re- 
markably large and long, and of a flattened form. The 
hind feet (as in moft other opoffums) furnifhed with a 
round mutic or unarmed thumb or interior toe, and the 
two adjoining interior toes united (as in feveral other 
Auttralafian quadrupeds) under one common {kin. 
