. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Mammals; Natural history; Mammifères; Sciences naturelles. THE DASYUIIE. 489 ;raote(l tn a riicrn >ss tlie end nf tlu; of great variation, â small in otlicis. many individuals ly. Hehind the iced immediately liickset slinrtness I SL'lddui (lisphivs eibiiity fur wliieh luzzle very blunt, inoveiiients iuv in r tlio tail, which ith Ciir. destructive tliau >ad havoc aninuj,' warmed in great so persecuted liy cely now l)e seen ]\rany of these ilei'ed a poetical The flesh d to have Hoiue ith Uesh of Sduic le, and is always nial it is clos
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Mammals; Natural history; Mammifères; Sciences naturelles. THE DASYUIIE. 489 ;raote(l tn a riicrn >ss tlie end nf tlu; of great variation, â small in otlicis. many individuals ly. Hehind the iced immediately liickset slinrtness I SL'lddui (lisphivs eibiiity fur wliieh luzzle very blunt, inoveiiients iuv in r tlio tail, which ith Ciir. destructive tliau >ad havoc aninuj,' warmed in great so persecuted liy cely now l)e seen ]\rany of these ilei'ed a poetical The flesh d to have Hoiue ith Uesh of Sduic le, and is always nial it is closely e ordinary coast- IU8 feast on the captivity it will and milk, witli icacy it six'edily I' liallled hy the ase liy means of ich seems to lie niely fornn'dahle i'c!l-train(>d tiiev li-ht. four to five at a e ilepths of the â affects the eyes ncy of ordinary itin,u' memhrane e dimness of a irkest corner of il dii^-s for itself illow or crevice, e in a maimer able lo sit eivct f its Ibre-jKiws, the names of Ursine Dasyure and Ursine This animal is also known under Opossum. Ok the iinimals which have been consi'Cgated into the genus T)asyures, four or five species are now aduntted to b(i clearly sejjarated from each other. In cohmr the Dasyures are extremely variable, so much so indeed, that it is hardly possible to find two individuals of the species that are marked in precisely the same manner. lie Common Dasvuhe the general colour of tlu^ fur is brown, of a very dark )metimes ody, liut in many examples the tail i-uniformly dark. In all theDasyures this member is moderately long, but not pielieiisile, and is thickly covered M'ith liiiir; a peculiarity which has zoologists to give the title of Dasyure, or hairy-tail, to these aninuds. They are all inhabitants of Au,stralasia, the common being found mime- vously enough in New Holland, Van Die- men's Land, and some parts of Australia. The habits of all the Dasyures are so very similar that
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