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FAG* 



Spotted Cuscus Common Opossum Short-Eared Opossum 

 Ring-Tailed Opossum Greater Flying Opossum Yellow-Bellied 

 Flying Opossum Squirrel-Like Flying Opossum Lesser Flying 

 Opossum Long-Snouted Opossum Common Wombat Tasmanian 

 Wombat Hairy-Nosed Wombat Marsupial Mole Brush-Tailed 

 Pouched Mouse Narrow-Footed Pouched Mice Tasmanian Tiger 

 Tasmanian Devil Native Cats Bandicoots Monotremes Platypus 

 Echidna - . . ... . ... 174 



CHAPTER XI 



RATS AND MICE 



Brown Rat Black Rat Cane Rat Dormouse Canadian Jumping- 

 Mouse Jerboa, or Kangaroo Rat Fat Mouse, and Fat-Tailed Desert 

 Mouse Spiny Mice . . . , . . .213 



CHAPTER XII 



WILD SHEEP AND GOATS 



Urial, or Punjab Wild Sheep Barbary Sheep Burrhel Wild Sheep 

 Himalayan Goral Tahr Chamois Rocky Mountain Goat 

 Markhor Himalayan Serow, or Goat- Antelope . * . 225 



CHAPTER XIII 



WILD PIGS 



European Wild Pig, and Wild Pigs Generally Indian Wild Pig Other 



Wild Pigs Babirusa Wart Hogs Giant Bush-Pig Peccaries 137 



CHAPTER XIV 



WOOL- AND FUR-BEARING ANIMALS 



Bactrian and Arabian Camels Huanaco, or Guanaco Vicuna Llama 

 Alpaca Polar Bear Brown Bear Japanese Bear Malay Bear 

 Sloth Bear Common Red Fox Arctic Fox Fennec Fox Indian 

 Fox Silver Fox Coypu Rat Chinchilla Skunks Marmots Seals 

 Beaver Otters ... 247 



CHAPTER XV 



ZEBRAS AND ASSES 



Burchell's Zebra Grevy's Zebra Mountain Zebra Quagga Asiatic Wild 



Ass African Wild Ass Legends concerning the Domestic Donkey . 277 



