POUCHED See also:

• MOUSE

MOUSE  , the colonial name for any member of the polyprotodont marsupial genus Phascologale (see See also:

• MARSUPIALIA
• MARSUPIALIA (from Lat. marsupium, a "pouch," or "bag")

MARSUPIALIA) . There are over a dozen See also:

• SPECIES

species, none larger, the most much smaller than a See also:

• RAT (a word common to Teut. and Rom. languages; probably first adopted in Teut.; the ultimate origin is not known; Skeat suggests the root rad-, to scratch; cf. Ger. Ratte, Dan. rotte, Fr. rat, &c.)

rat . The See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food of these animals is almost entirely See also:

• INSECTS

insects, which some pursue among the branches of trees, while others are purely terrestrial . Pouched mice are found throughout See also:

• AUSTRALIA

Australia, where all the species have uniformly coloured See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur, and also in New See also:

• GUINEA

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, ANNE (1683–173o)

Oldfield See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas these marsupials fill the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place held in Malaya by the See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree-shrews, and in See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AMERICA

America by the smaller opossums .