. American types of animal life. Zoology; Animal behavior. w. THE VIRGINIAN OPOSSUM. a rat. But, unlike the tail of a rat, it is prehensile, thus resembling the tails of various American monkeys. The body is clothed with long, loose, rather soft hairs some white, some black, some parti-coloured. Beneath the hinder part of the body there is, in the female, a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mivart, St. George


. American types of animal life. Zoology; Animal behavior. w. THE VIRGINIAN OPOSSUM. a rat. But, unlike the tail of a rat, it is prehensile, thus resembling the tails of various American monkeys. The body is clothed with long, loose, rather soft hairs some white, some black, some parti-coloured. Beneath the hinder part of the body there is, in the female, a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900. Boston, Little, Brown and Company


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