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— Spotted Cuscus — Common Opossum — Short-Eared Opossum — 

 Ring-Tailed Opossum — Greater Flying Opossum — Yellow-Bellied 

 Flying Opossum — Squirrel-Like Flying Opossum — Lesser Flying 

 Opossum — Long-Snouted Opossum — Common Wombat— Tasmanian 

 Wombat — Hairy-Nosed Wombat — Marsupial Mole — Brush-Tailed 

 Pouched Mouse — Narrow-Footed Pouched Mice — Tasmanian Tiger — 

 Tasmanian Devil — Native Cats — Bandicoots — Monotremes — Platypus 

 — Echidna . . 174 



CHAPTER XI 



RATS AND MICE 



Brown Rat — Black Rat — Cane Rat — Dormouse — Canadian Jumping- 

 Mouse — Jerboa, or Kangaroo Rat — Fat Mouse, and Fat-Tailed Desert 

 Mouse — Spiny Mice 213 



CHAPTER XII 



WILD SHEEP AND GOATS 



Urial, or Punjab Wild Sheep — Barbary Sheep — Burrhel Wild Sheep — 

 Himalayan Goral — Tahr — Chamois — Rocky Mountain Goat — 

 Markhor — Himalayan Serow, or Goat- Antelope . . . .225 



CHAPTER XIII 



WILD PIGS 



European Wild Pig, and Wild Pigs Generally — Indian Wild Pig — Other 



Wild Pigs — Babirusa — Wart Hogs — Giant Bush-Pig — Peccaries . 237 



CHAPTER XIV 



WOOL- AND FUR-BEARING ANIMALS 



Bactrian and Arabian Camels — Huanaco, or Guanaco — Vicuna — Llama — 

 Alpaca — Polar Bear — Brown Bear — Japanese Bear — Malay Bear — 

 Sloth Bear — Common Red Fox — Arctic Fox — Fennec Fox — Indian 

 Fox — Silver Fox — Coypu Rat — Chinchilla — Skunks — Marmots — Seals 

 — Beaver — Otters 247 



CHAPTER XV 



ZEBRAS AND ASSES 



Burchell's Zebra — Grevy's Zebra — Mountain Zebra — Quagga — Asiatic Wild 



Ass — African Wild Ass — Legends concerning the Domestic Donkey . 277 



