78 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



incisives almost like those of the rodentia, and their 

 cheek-teeth have each two transverse cones. 



They live on grass, have a pyriform stomach, and 

 a broad and short caecum, provided, like that of man 

 and the ourang-outang, with a vermiform appendage. 

 The penis is forked as in the sarigues. 



But one species is known, about the size of a 

 badger, with a copious fur more or less yellowish. It 

 lives in King Island, south of New Holland, in 

 burrows. It would propagate with facility in our 

 climates, and its flesh is said to be excellent. It is 



The Didelphis Ursina of Shaw. The natives call it 

 Wombat*. (Peron, Voy. pi. xxviii.) 



* M. Bass has described an animal externally the same as the 

 Phascolomes, and to which he also gives the name of Wombat, but 

 which would appear to have six incisors, two canines, and sixteen 

 molars in each jaw. If there be not some erroneous combination of 

 two different descriptions, this would be an additional sub-genus to 

 place among the perameles. M. Illiger has already established it 

 under the name Amblotis. — See Mem. de Petersb. 1803 to 1806, 

 p. 444, and the Bulletin des Sciences, No. 72, An. XI. 



