VERTEBRATA (CHOKDATA). 



107 



Section Poephaga. 



Fam. Macropodidse. Macropus (Kangaroo), Dendro- 

 lagus (Tree-kangaroo), Hypsiprymnus (Kangaroo- 

 rat). 



Section Carpophaga. 



Fam. a. Phascolarctidse. P_hfiKr.nla/rrf.n$ (TTnalflV 

 Fam. b. Phalangistidae (Phalangers). Phalangista, 

 Petaurus. 



Sub-ord. 2. Polyprotodontia. 



Section Entomopliaga. 



Fam. a. Peramelidae. Perameles (Bandicoot), CJice- 

 ropus. 



Fam. &. T}jflr1phiihi Pfrfr^r^T" (Opossum), Cheiro- 



nectes. 



Section Sarcophaga. 



Fam. Dasyurida\ Thylacinus, Dasyurus. 



(Waterliouse, A Natural History of the Mammalia, vol. i., London, 1846 ; 

 Owen, Classification of the Marsupialia, Trans. Zool. Soc., 1839 ; Owen, 

 Fossil Mammalia of Australia, 1877 ; Gould, The Mammals of Australia, 

 1863.) 



Fig. 95. Marsupialia. The female of Didelphys dorsigera, one of the South American 

 Opossums, carrying its young upon its back. 



