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witli three tiny, sharp hoofs, are decidedly piglike, 

 ■while the great ears, soft, furry body, and mode of 

 progression by leaps, are peculiarities belonging no 

 less to the rabbit tribes. 



Upon examination, however, it will be seen that 

 while the fore feet possess two hoofs like those of a 

 pig, the hinder ones have, like a horse or donkey, only 

 one ; and, as if to add to the seeming incongruities 

 of the animal's make-up, it has a pouch in which, like 

 a kangaroo, it keeps its little ones until they are old 

 enough to seek shelter in the nest of leaves and other 

 substances the mother makes for them. It is an 

 active creature, hopping about on its little limbs, no 

 thicker than goosequills, in pursuit of the insects upon 

 which it lives. 



Neat of the oheirogale. 



