NECK GLANDS OF THE MAltSTlPIALlA. 



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determine its species. Dendrolagus, the tree-kangaroo, is 

 an arboreal macropid, which feeds on bark, leaves and fruit ; 

 Acrobates — the pigmy nying-phalanger — is a very small 

 animal, smaller than a mouse, which is found in Queens- 

 land, N.S. Wales and Victoria. It too is arboreal, living 









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1.3--fi;Ti>ylo-hyoid. 



■ ■■ \ <M£ 



■jfn a Jugular.. 

 • i L Anastomosis. 



Gld.Submax. ;M% 



|c|~ V./iuaular Ext. 



Gld.Parotid.-f; \\;\ 



X M.steyno-deido- 



i 



mastoid. 



h.sterno-hyoid/- 





2 , 





Y | ::V, 



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li^y 



M.hectoralis. 



Cervical 



thymus. 



Fig. 1. Dendrolagus ; superficial dissection of the neck — only the 

 integument removed. Natural size. 



on the honey, which it abstracts from flowers, and on fruit. 

 Only one species, pygmceus, is known. The specimen 

 described here was a male, measuring 13^ cm. from the 

 snout to the tip of the tail. 



