CONTENTS vil 
CHAPTER XXXIV.—RopEnNts,—concluded. 
Tue Hare-LikE Ropents.—Distinctive Features of the Group—The Picas (Lagomyide)— 
Distribution and Habits—Hares and Rabbits (Leporide)—Common Hare (Lepus)— 
Mountain - Hare—North American Hares— Asiatic Hares— African Species—The 
Rabbit—Its Distribution and Acclimatisation—Domesticated Rabbits, : ass 
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CHAPTER XXXV.—THE EpeEntatEs,—Order Edentata. 
Characteristics—Distribution—- Mode of Life—The Sloths (Bradypodidw)—Three-Toed Sloths 
(Bradypus)—Two-Toed Sloths (Cholepus)—Extinet Ground-Sloths (Megatheriidw)— 
—The Ant-Eaters (Myrmecophagide)—Great Ant-Eater (Myrmecophaga)—The Taman- 
dua (Tamandua)—Two-Toed Ant-Eater (Cyclotwrus)—The Armadillos (Dasypodidw)— 
The Pichiciago (Chlamydophorus)—Six-Banded Armadillos (Dasypus)—Their Structure 
and Mode of Life—Broad-Banded Armadillo (Lystwrus)—Giant Armadillo (Priedon)— 
Three-Banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes)—Peba Armadillo (Tatusia)—Other Species— 
The Extinct Glyptodonts (Glyptodontidw)—The Pangolins (Manidw)—Asiatic Species 
—African Pangolins—Aard-Varks (Orycteropodide), ‘ : : : 202 
CHAPTER XXXVI.—TuHE PoucHED MamMats, oR Marsuprats,—Order Marsupialia. 
Distinctive Characters—Teeth—Mode of Suckling Young—Distribution—The Kangaroos and 
Their Allies (Macropodide)—Kangaroos and Wallabies (Macropus)—Rock-Wallabies 
(Petrogale)—Spur-Tailed Wallabies (Onychogale)—Hare- Wallabies (Lagorchestes)—Dorca 
Kangaroos (Dorcopsis)—Tree-Kangaroos (Dendrolagus)—Banded Wallaby (Lagostrophus) 
—Rat-Kangaroos—Common Rat-Kangaroo (Potorous)—Brush-Tailed Rat- Kangaroo 
(Bettongia)—Rufous Rat-Kangaroo (pyprymnus)—Five-Toed Rat-Kangaroo (Hypsv- 
prymnodon)—Extinct Kangaroo-Like Marsupials—The Phalanger Tribe (Phalangeride) 
—Long-Snouted Phalanger (Tarsipes)—Cuscuses (Phalanger)—True Phalangers (Tricho- 
surus)—Crescent-Toothed Phalangers (Pseudochirus)—Great Flying-Phalanger (Petaur- 
oides)—Striped Phalanger (Dactylopsila)—True Flying-Phalangers (Petwwrus)—Lead- 
beater’s Phalanger (Gymmnobelideus)—Dormouse-Phalangers (Dromicia)—Pigmy Flying- 
Phalanger (Acrobates)—Pen-Tailed Phalanger (Distechwrus)—Koala (Phascolarctus)— 
Great Extinct Phalanger (Thylacoleo)—The Wombats (Phascolomyide)—The Bandicoots 
(Peramelide)—True Bandicoots (Perameles)-—Rabbit-Bandicoot (Peragale)—Pig-Footed 
Bandicoot (Cheropus)—The Dasyure Tribe (Dasywride)—Thylacine (Thylacinus)— 
Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus)—Dasyures (Dasyurus)—Phascologales (Phascologale)— 
Common Pouched Mouse (Sminthopsis)—Jerboa Pouched Mouse (Antechinomys)— 
Banded Anteater (Myrmecobius)—The Pouched Mole (Notoryctide)—The Opossums 
(Didelphyide)—True Opossums (Didelphys)—Water-Opossum (Chironectes)— Extinet 
Marsupials, : : ‘ : . 3 : : 
CHAPTER XXXVII.—Eaa-Layriya MamMats, or Monorremes,— Order Monotremata. 
Distinctive Features—The Duckbill (Ornithorhynchidw)—Its Structure and Habits—The 
Echidnas (Echidnide)—Allied Extinct Mammals, : : : : . 283 
INDEX, 289 
Norr.—This Section is the first half of the Third Volume, but as it completes the portion of 
the Work devoted to the Mammals it has its own Index. 
