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URSINE OPOSSUM.

Didelphis Ursina. D. flavescens, labio superiore bifido.
Yellowish O. with bifid upper lip.

The largest of all the Opossums: size of a Badger: colour pale yellow: fur longish and sub-erect: nose strongly divided by a furrow.

Native of New Holland: a species very lately discovered, and not yet fully or satisfactorily known or described.

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