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UPPER MAMMAL GALLERY. 
complement o£ five toes with strong nails, possesses a much 
enlarged sickle-like bone (/’), which adds to the breadth and 
strength of the palmar surface. The pelvis or hip-bone is much 
compressed, in order that the hind-legs, which are com- 
paratively weak and small, should not project too much 
laterally. 
The order is divided into the typical Insectivora, or Insecti- 
vora Yera, and the Dermoptera, represented only by the 
aberrant Flying Lemurs. In the fonner group sve have, firstly, 
the Tupais, or Tree-Shrews {Tupaiidce)^ ol India, Malaya, and 
¥ig. 18 . 
A Tupai, or Tree-Shrew {Tupcda tana). 
S. China, which are so like Squirrels both in appearance and 
habits as easily to be mistaken for them. They feed on various 
insects, and also to a small extent on fruit, and are the only 
Insectivores which habitually seek their food by day. There 
are numerous brightly-coloured, bushy-tailed species belonging 
to the fiimily, mostly referable to the genus Tupaia (fig. 18, 
286 - 289 ) ; but there is also the curious little pen-tailed Tree- 
Shrew, Ptilocercus lowi ( 290 ). 
The Jumping Shrews, or Elephant-Shrews {Macroscelldid(je) ^ 
are long-nosed and long-legged little animals, natives of Africa, 
which use their long hind-legs for leaping about over the sand. 
