RABBIT BANDICOOT 



IS7 



species entirely AiTstralian in range. The enormous ears (^vllence 



Fig. 85. — Bones of niaiius. 

 A, of Chncrnpjts can- 

 tanidis. X 2. B, of 

 Banilicoot (Pfrtntidc^). 

 X Ivs. c, Cuneiform ; 

 I, lunar ; ?/;. magnum ; 

 7?, radius ; .^', scaphoid ; 

 tti, trapezoid ; tin, 

 trapezium ; u, unci- 

 form ; U, ulna ; /- T, 

 digits. (From Flower's 

 Osteology.) 



Eabbii " Bandicoot) distinguish this genvts from Pcr<(iiieh:s 



Fjg. 



-Rabbit Bandicoot. Peragale lagotis. x J. 



The pouch opens backwards, and there are eight mammae. F. 

 lagotis, the only species about whose ways of life anything is 



