Marston Moor
a plain in Yorkshire, England, where a decisive battle was fought between the Royalists under Prince Rupert, and the Parliamentary army under Lord Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, July 2, 1644, in which the Royalists were completely routed.
MARSUPIALIA (-ā'li-ä), or MAR SUPIATA (-ā'tä), in zoölogy, pouched animals or mammals having a marsupium or pouch. Under the designation desi Marsupiata they were considered by Cuvier to be a subdivision of his order Carnassiers Co (Carnivora), though their teeth were of various types, and many were vegetable feeders. Some have an analogy to the Insectivora, others to Carnivora , others to the Rodentia, from all of which they differ in possessing a marsupium or pouch. They are now generally termed Marsupialia, and elevated into a subclass, called by Professor Huxley and others, Didelphia. The young are born of a small size and imperfect in condition, but are transferred to the marsupium, where they become attached to a long nipple which supplies them with milk.
There is evidently in this arrangement a first faint approach to the oviparous one which characterizes birds. The majority of the species inhabit Australia and its adjacent islands, though the Didelphidæ (opossums) are American.