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POUCHED MOUSE

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 213 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POUCHED See also:

MOUSE , the colonial name for any member of the polyprotodont marsupial genus Phascologale (see See also:MARSUPIALIA). There are over a dozen See also:species, none larger, the most much smaller than a See also:rat. The See also:food of these animals is almost entirely See also:insects, which some pursue among the branches of trees, while others are purely terrestrial. Pouched mice are found throughout See also:Australia, where all the species have uniformly coloured See also:fur, and also in New See also:Guinea and the Aru and someof the adjacent islands, most of the Papuan forms being distinguished by striping on the back. In the view of See also:Oldfield See also:Thomas these marsupials fill the See also:place held in Malaya by the See also:tree-shrews, and in See also:South See also:America by the smaller opossums.

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