Linnaeus's mouse opossum, Marmosa murina 132, lowland paca, Cuniculus paca 129, and Virginian opossum, male and female with young in pouch. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barr’s edition of Comte Buffon’s Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1807.

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