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ZOOLOGY. 



There are sqnii-rel-like flying marsupials {Peiavnas), 

 marsupial rats, marsupid bears, and marsupial ant-eaters 



nearly to dealh by dogs. " Tliougli if left iilone for a few moments, 

 tlie attention of tlie bystanders apparently diverted from it, it would 

 fCet on its legs and begin to creep slyly away; yet no Booner was an 

 eye luiued towards it. than it would crouch up, lie along motionless 



