A YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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teeth, although the animal feeds principally on eggs, insects, 

 and birds. The young of those species which are unprovided 

 with the pouch, as soon as they are able to walk, climb up on 

 their mother's back and intertwine their tails with hers, which 

 she carries over her back for this purpose. This instinct is per- 

 haps more curious than that which leads them to dart into their 

 mother's protecting pouch. 



Time was getting on ; it now became important for us to reach 

 the spot where the moles were ; and I'Encuerado predicted good 

 sport there without firing off his gun. 



