THE SAVAGE WORLD. 
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The Skull Cap (Lophiomys imhansi) was discovered some seventeen years 
ago, and until quite recently was represented by a single individual specimen. 
Even now but four of the animals are known to naturalists, and these come from 
Abyssinia. It is stout in body, short in legs, long-tailed, small clawed. It is 
as badly compounded of the peculiarities of different animals as was the artificial 
“humbug,” submitted to the entomological professor. It is in skull like a 
reptile, in feet like the opossum, in coloring like the skunk, in size and 
form like the guinea pig, in having an opposable thumb like the monkey, in 
tail like a fox, and in mane like the fossil 
elephant. Its own peculiar manifestations 
are an ability to erect its mane at pleasure; 
furrows between the mane and the hair on 
the sides of the body; hair in the furrows 
which is spongy and unlike any other known 
hair, fur or bristles, and an extravagant 
length to the hair of the body, as in the 
case of the sheep of the Dinkas, the buffalo 
and some other animals. 
The Azar’s Agouti (. Dasyprocta azarcs) 
is South American, and for the purposes of 
The Savage Worgd needs no further particular description beyond its name. 
The Hutiaconga ( Capromys pilorides ) is Cuban in its habitat, about two 
and a half feet in length (of which the tail claims a third), black and yellow 
in coloring, short-tailed, naked and scaly, and is, in short, a tree rat. 
The Hutia-carabali ( Capromys prehensilis) is also Cuban, is smaller in 
size, and longer of tail, and its tail is to some extent prehensile. 
The Tuko-tuko ( Ctenomys brasiliensis) is 
a stout, little gray or brown creature, about 
a foot in length from the end of its nose to 
the tip of its tail. Its ears are rudimentary, 
and its feet have the singular appendage of 
a comb of bristles. .It is frugivorous, noc¬ 
turnal and subterranean. Its habitat is South 
America, from Brazil to Patagonia. 
The Jumping Hare (. Pedetes capper') be¬ 
longs to South Africa, and derives its name 
from its method of progression, which is by 
kangaroo-like leaps of twenty or thirty feet. 
As it is gregarious a sight of a troop is 
much more comical than any “ sack race.” 
The tail, equal to the body in length, is very 
bushy, and the ears, in size, arrangement and coloring, resemble those of the 
hare family. Its hind feet, although four-toed, are provided with claws, which 
have advanced a great ways in their effort to convert themselves into unmis¬ 
takable hoofs. 
The African Briste-toe Gundi ( Ctenodactylus massoni ) is of the size of 
a small rabbit. Its tail is short, its prevailing color gray. It is to be met with 
in Southern Africa. 
The Jumping Mouse ( Zapus hudsonius ) is North American. It is built on 
SECTION OF MOTE’S NEST. 
