LOWER MAMMALS OF INSECTIVOROUS HABIT 



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Ant- Eater, and the little springing Bandicoots (Perameles and 

 Cheer opus) may be compared to the Elephant- Shrews. The most 



Fig. 334. Marsupial Mole (Notoryctes] 



recently-discovered member of the group is the Marsupial Mole 

 (Notoryctes] (fig. 334), a small creature that pursues its way 



Fig. 335. Spiny Ant-Eater (Echidna] 



underground like the British mole, which it superficially resembles. 

 Yet anatomy shows that these three forms are more closely related 

 to one another and to the herbivorous kangaroos than they are to 

 the members of any other mammalian orders. 



