. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. The fifth subdivision has two long incisors in the lower jaw, but no canines; in the upper two long middle incisors, with some small ones [four in number] placed laterally, and two rig. 43.—Great Kangaroo. small canines. Tt comprehends but one genus, The Koala {Koala, Cuv.; Lipurus, Goldf.; Phascolarctos%, Blainv.),— Which presents a short, stout body, and short legs, Without any [or rather with a short] tail: their ante- rior toes, five in number, s
. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. The fifth subdivision has two long incisors in the lower jaw, but no canines; in the upper two long middle incisors, with some small ones [four in number] placed laterally, and two rig. 43.—Great Kangaroo. small canines. Tt comprehends but one genus, The Koala {Koala, Cuv.; Lipurus, Goldf.; Phascolarctos%, Blainv.),— Which presents a short, stout body, and short legs, Without any [or rather with a short] tail: their ante- rior toes, five in number, separate into two groups for prehension, the thumb and index antagonizing with the other three. On the hind-feet there is no thumb; and the first two toes are united as in the Phalangers and Kangaroos. [There are five molars in each jaw, square, with four tubercles each, excepting the first. This animal is essentially a Flialanger with a short tail.] One only is known (Lip. cinereus, Goldfuss.)—Of a greyish colour, which passes its life partly upon trees, and partly in burrows which it excavates at their foot (fig. 44.) The female carries her young for a long time on her back. Finally, our sixth division of the Marsupial animals, consisting of Fig. 44.—Koala. The Wombat (Phascalomys, Geof.; \_Amblotis, Bass]),— Comprehends a true Rodent according to the teeth and intestines, which preserves its relationship with the Carnaria only in the mode of articulation of its lower jaw; and which, in a rigoreus system, it. * A Kangaroo will hug a Dog with its fore-paws, while it kicks and rips up the belly with its hind-foot.—Ed. i 1 • appears rather that the animals of this genus are not strictly gregarious, hut collect accidentally at the scattered feeding places. They lodge during the day among high ferns, and feed chiefly hy night, or in the evening and morning; but are very sharp-sighted during the day.—Ed. t This term is generally adopted.— Please note that these
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