THE DUCKBILLED PLATYPUS. 



This strange animal is a link between the reptiles and the mammals. The female lays a soft-shelled egg 

 those of a -whitethroat, in a chamber at the end of her burrow. The Duck-bill presents another resemblance to 

 temperature of it? blood, which ip much lower than in most mammals 



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ibout as large as 

 the lizard in the 



