VII RABBIT BANDICOOT 157 
species entirely Australian in range. The enormous ears (whence 
wm Fic. 85.—Bones of manus. 
A, of Choeropus cas- 
tanotis. x2. B, of 
Bandicoot (Perameles). 
x13. c, Cuneiform ; 
Z, lunar ; m, magnum ; 
R, radius; s, scaphoid ; 
td, trapezoid; tm, 
trapezium; wv, wnci- 
form; U, ulna; J-V, 
digits. (From Flower’s 
Osteology.) 
Fic. 86.—Rabbit Bandicoot. Peragale lagotis. x}. 
The pouch opens backwards, and there are eight mammae.  P. 
lagotis, the only species about whose ways of life anything is 
