RABBIT BANDICOOT 



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species entirely Australian in range. The tnioriuous ears (whence 



Fig. 85. — Bones of luauus. 

 A, of Chcemjins cas- 

 tanotls. X 2. B, of 

 Bandicoot (Peromeles). 

 X li. c, Cuneiform ; 

 I, lunar ; m, magnum ; 

 /?, radius ; .s, scaphoid ; 

 id, trapezoid ; tm, 

 trapezium ; ?«, unci- 

 form ; U, ulna; 1-V, 

 digits. (From Flower's 

 Osteology.) 



" liabbit " Dandicoot) distinguish this genus from Perameles. 



Fig. 86. — Ral)l>it Bandicoot. Peragah larjotls. x4. 



The yjouch ijpens backwards, and there are eight mammae. F. 

 lar/otis, the only species about whose ways of life anything is 



