CONTENTS vii 



CHAPTER XXXIV.- Rodents,— concluded. 



The Hare-Like Rodexts. — Distinctive Features of the Group— The Picas (Lagomyidce)— 



Distribution unci Habits — Hares ami Rabbits (Leporidce) — Common Han- (Lepus) 



Mountain - Hare -North American Hares — Asiatic Hares— African Species The 

 Rabbit It- Distribution and Acclimatisation — Domesticated Rabbits, . 189 



CHAPTER XXXV.— The Edentates,— Order Edentata. 



Characteristic — Distribution— Mode of Life — Tin- Sloths ( Brady} odida i Three-Toed Sloths 

 (Bradypws) Two- Toed Sloths (Cholcepus) — Extinct Ground-Sloths (Megatheriidce)— 



The Ant Eaters (Myrmecophagidm) Great Ant-Eater (Myrmecophaga) — The Taman- 

 dua (Tamandua) — Two-Toed Ant-Eater (Oycloturus) — The Armadillos (Dasypodidm) — 

 The Pichiciago (' %lamydophorus)— Six-Banded Armadillos | Dasypus) — Their Structure 

 and Mode of Life — Broad-Banded Armadillo I i Giant Armadillo (Priodori) — 



Three-Banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes) Peba Armadillo (Tatuda) — Other Species 

 The Extinct Glyptodonts (Glyptodontidte) — The Pangolin.- (Manidqe) — Asiatic Species 



African Pangolins -Aard-Varks (Orycteropodidte), ..... 202 



CHAPTER XXXVI. -The Pouched .Mammals, oh Marsupials, — Order Marsupialia. 



Distinctive Characters Teeth — Mode of Suckling Young- Distribution — The Kangaroo.- and 

 Their Allies (Macropodidtr) — Kangaroos and Wallabies (Macropus) — Rock-Wallabies 

 (PetrogaU ) Spur-Tailed Wallabies (Onychogalt ) Hare- Wallabies (Lagorchestes) — Dorca 

 Kangaroo I Dorcopsis) Tree-Kangaroos (Dendrolague)- Handed Wallaby (Lagostrophus) 

 — Rat-Kangaroos— Common Rat I roo (Potorous) Brush-Tailed Rat-Kangaroo 



(Bettongia) Rufous Rat-Kangaroo (JEpyprymnus)- Fivi ["oed l.'at- Kangaroo (lln)isi 

 prymmodon) Extinct Kangaroo-Like Marsupials The Phalanger Tribe (Phalangeridce) 

 — Long Snouted Phalanger (Tarsipe$)—i luscuses (Phalang> r)- -True Phalangers( Tricko- 

 surus) ('n scent- Toothed Phalanger {Pseudochirus) — Great Flying-Phalanger (Petaur- 

 oides) — Striped Phalanger (Dactylopsila) True Fly ing-Phalangers (Petaurus) Lead- 

 beater's Phalanger (Gymnobelideus) Dormouse-Phalangers (Dromicia) — Pigmy Flying- 

 Phalanger (Acrobates) — Pen-Tailed Phalanger (Dislozchurus)- -Koala (Phascolarctus) — 

 Great Extinct Phalanger (Thylacoleo)— The Wombats (Phascolomyidai) — The Bandicoots 

 (PerameUdce) True Bandicoots (Peramel )- Rabbit Bandicoot (Peragale) — Pig-Footed 

 Bandicoot (Chceropus) — The Dasyure Tribe (Dasywidai) — Thylacine (Thylacinus) — 

 Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus) Dasyures (Dasyum I Phascologales (Phascologale) — 

 Common Pouched Mouse (Sminthopsis) Jerboa Pouched Mouse (Antechinomys) — 

 Banded Anteater (Myrmecobius) — The Pouched Mole (Notoryctidai) — The Opossums 

 (Iiiili-ljihijidn-) — True Opossums (Didelphys) Water-* (possum (Chironectes) — Extinct 

 Marsupials, .......... 235 



CHAPTER XXXVII. — Egg-Laying Mammals, or Monotremes, — Order Monotremata. 



Distinctive Features — The Duckbill (Ornithorhynchidai) — Its Structure and Habits— The 



Echidnas (Echidnidce) — Allied Extinct Mammals, ..... 283 



