MONOTREMATA. 
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THE ORN1THORHYNCHU8. 
Ornithorhynchus anatinus. 
Platypus cruitinus, Shaw, Nit. Misc* vol. x. Piute 385—1799: General 
Zoology, toI. ». Part 1, p. 229, Plates 66 and 67 . —Ghat, 
in Cat. of Brit. Mas. Coll. p. 191 ; 1843. 
Omithorhynchus paradorus ,Blcmenhacu, Voigt’s Magaz. (1800), ii. p. 305, 
Plate 41.— Home, Phil. Trans. 1800, p. 432 ; and for 1802, 
p. 67.— Certs*, Regne Animal, Ed. 1829, tom. i. p. 233. — 
Meckel, Ornithorhynchi paradoxi descriptio anatom. Lips. 
1826, fol. 
Omithorhynchus fuscu* et rufus, Plron*, Voy. de Decoor. i. Tab. 31, 
Figs. 1 and 2.— Leach, Zool. Misc. ii. p. 136, Tab. 3.— 
Desmarkst, Mnmmalogie, Part 2, p. 380. 
Omithorhynchus brevrrostris, Ogilby, Proceedings of the Zool. Soc. for 
Nor. 1831, Part 1, p. 150. 
Omithorhynchus crispus ct laris, Macgillivrat, Memoirs of the 'Wer¬ 
nerian Society, 1832, p. 127. 
Length about 18 inches: fur rather short, dense, the under fur 
soft, aud the outer fur rather crisp to the touch ; general colour 
dusky-brown; on the upper parts of the body rather dark, on 
the under, paler. 
Immature and young animals, with the fur soft to the touch. 
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