RABBIT BANDICOOT 



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species entirely Australian in range. The enormous ears (whence 



FIG. 85. Bones of maims. 

 A, of Choerqpus cas- 

 tanotis. x 2. B, of 

 Bandicoot (Peramdes). 

 x l^. c, Cuneiform ; 

 I, lunar ; m, magnum ; 

 It, radius ; s, scaphoid ; 

 td, trapezoid ; tm, 

 trapezium ; u, unci- 

 form ; U, ulna ; I- V, 

 digits. (From Flower's 

 Osteology.) 



" Babbit " Bandicoot) distinguish this genus from Perameles. 



FIG. 86. Rabbit Bandicoot. Perayale lagotis. x I. 



The pouch opens backwards, and there are eight mammae. P. 

 lagotis, the only species about whose ways of life anything is 



