ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM, TRING. 
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Marsupials, 
whicli are continued on tlie next side of the case, 
along the central passage. The Marsupialia, as 
everybody knows, are characterised by having a 
“pouch” {marsupium), into which the helpless and 
quite rudimentary young are transferred by the mother 
immediately after birth. 
This order is composed of a great many forms. 
Some of these closely resemble in their outward 
appearance animals of other orders. So we find the 
Thylacinus (see above) looking like a wolf, others 
like rats and mice, the flying Phalangers (Petau- 
roides, Petaurus, Oymnobelideus, Acrobates) like flying 
squirrels, the Koala or “ Native Bear ” (Phascolarctus 
cinereus) of the Australian colonists, resembling a 
bear, the Dasyuri more or less like some of the 
smaller Carnivora. Notoryctes typhlops, a recently 
discovered species, resembles a mole, and lives in a 
similar way. The Cuscus {Phalanger) are plentiful, 
both in species and varieties, and the Opossums 
{Didelphis) which inhabit America, while the other 
Marsupials are confined to the Australian and Papuan 
regions of the world. 
Above the Cuscus, Koala, etc., we find again heads 
of various Deer, among them a large head with very 
good horns of the Sambur or large Indian Deer 
{fiervus unicolor or aristotelis), so well known to 
Indian sportsmen, a Deer which, like its allies fropi 
