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MANUAL OF ZOOLOGY 



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and provided with four toes, the hallux being absent ; 

 the two inner (second and third) small and united together 

 by integument, while the middle one is very long and 



FIG. 293. Rock Wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus). (After Vogt and Specht.) 



powerful. The tail is very long, and usually thick. There 

 is a large marsupium. 



The Phalangers (Phafangerida} are climbing Marsupials 

 which have both fore- and hind-feet prehensile ; the second 



