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The Wombats (Phascolomy^dce, Fig. 1122) are large, heavy, 

 thick-bodied, burrowing animals, with short, flattened heads, short, 



FIG. 1120. Rock Wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus). (After Vogt and Specht.) 



thick limbs, provided with strong claws on all the digits except 

 the hallux, and with the second and third toes of the hind- 



FIG. 1121. Marsupial Mole (Notoryctes typhlops). (From the Cambridge Natural History. 



foot partly connected together by skin. The tail is very short. The 

 Kangaroos and their allies (Macropodidae, Fig. 1120) are adapted, 



