632 The Animal Kingdom 



Fig. 209. — Some representative mammals, a, Didelphis, the opossum; b, Blarina, 

 the short-tailed shrew; c, Dasypus, an armadillo; d, Orycteropus, the aardvark; e, 

 Myotis, the brown bat; /, Cynocephalus, the flying lemur; g, Ornithorhynchus, the 

 duck-billed platypus; h, Manis, the pangolin or scaly anteater; i, Physeter, the sperm 

 whale; j, Peromyscus, deer mouse; fc, Dugong, the sea cow; I, Tarsius, the tarsier. 



