...root, where the hair grows only out of the sides; this is white, bristly, and bushy: the whole length, from the point of the nose to the end of the tail, seven feet ten inches, and the height three feet six inches: the colour is that of a mouse, with a...

...The vulpine opossum is, in its general shape, "" tlike the common fox, but considerably less, being from the point of the nose to the end of the tail only twenty-six inches ; and even of this length the tail takes up fifteen inches. The upper parts...

...vulpine opossum is, in its general shape, somewhat like the common fox, but considerably less, being from the point of the nose to the end of the tail only twenty-six inches ; and even of this length the tail takes up fifteen inches. The upper parts...

...supplies them with animal food. There are two kinds. The largest that had been shot weighed about 140lbs., and measured, from the point of the nose to the end...tail, two feet one inch ; head eight inches ; fore legs, one foot ; hind legs, two feet eight inches ; circumference of the fore part of the body, near...

...long, flat near the root, where the hair grows only out of the sides. The Avhole length of the animal, from the point of the nose to the end of the tail, is seven feet ten inches, and the height three feet six inches. It is generally of the mouse colour:...

...with roundish spots. He is about the size of a large dog, though be , sometimes measures nine feet from the point of the nose to the end of the tail. The panther is, in Africa, what the tiger is in Asia, a ferocious and cruel murderer. His manner of...

...the bones on the spot, is four archines (9 ft. 4 in.) high, and seven archines (16 ft. 4 in.) long from the point of the nose to the end of the tail, without including the tusks, which are a toise and a half f in length; the two together weighed 360...

...had, in some degree, destroyed the hair. The entire carcase was ten feet high, and seventeen long, from the point of the nose to the end of the tail, without including the tusks, which together weighed 360 pounds. The head alone, without the tusks,...

...root, where the hair grows only at the sides ; this is white, bristly, and bushy. The entire length, from the point of the nose to the end of the tail, is seven feet ten inches ; and the height three feet six inches. The colour is that of a mouse, with...

...root, where the hair grows only at the sides; this is white, bristly, and bushy. The entire length, from the point of the nose to the end of the tail, is seven feet ten inches ; and the height three feet six inches. The colour is that of a mouse, with...