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belong in this family, many of them seen here. The most 

 notable and largest is 



The Tasmanian or Pouched Wolf (Thylarinus), A 

 number of smaller animals about the size, and resembling 

 cats, are named Native Cats; the Dasvures are they. 



GROUP 53. — Family Peramelidiz embraces three genera 

 and ten species of small pouched animals. Some are 

 called Bandicoots. , 



GROUP 54. — The KANGAROOS, Family Macropodida, 

 includes ten genera and fifty-six species. In the col- 

 lection here present, interesting forms will be seen, vary- 

 ing from the short-legged Tree KANGAROO, to the long- 

 legged and short-armed GREAT KANGAROO, and the 

 pigmy " Kangaroo Rats.'' 



GROUP 55. — The Flying Pouched Animals, Family 

 Phalangistidce. Eight genera and twenty-seven species 

 are enumerated. They comprise a variety of creatures that 

 appear in every respect like common flying squirrels, and 

 would easily be taken for them, if the teeth were not seen. 

 The largest species of Pet aunts here seen, as compared with 

 the great flying squirrel quite of the same size, will prove 

 interesting. Some of the smaller ones of this family look- 

 like flying mice. They all belong, however, to a low rank 

 in the scale of life. 



GROUP 56. — Family Phascolomyidie has but one genus 

 and three species. The rather more familiar WOMBATS are 

 members, about the size, and rather like a badger in 

 some respects. 



Sub-class Prototheria or Ornithodelphia. The 

 animals embraced under this division are so far removed 

 from all others, it is regarded as more natural to include 

 them distinctly in a sub-class. Two families contain all 

 the species known, as follows : 



