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Identifier: animalkingdomar00cuvi
Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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h some small onesi-.g. 43.-Gre«i Kanearoo. [four in nuuiber] placed laterally, and two small canines. It comprehends but one genus, Tiiii Koala (Koala, Cuv.; Lipurus, Goldf.; Phascolarctost, Blainv.),— Which presents a short, stout body, and short legs, ?.vitliout any [or rather with a short] tail: their ante-rior toes, five in number, separate into two group> for prehension, the thumb and index antagonizing witli the other three. On the hind-feet there is no tliumb; and the first two toes are united as in the Phalangers and Kangaroos. [There are fi\e molars in each jaw, square, with four tubercles each, excepting the first. This animal is essentially a Ilialanger with a short tail.]One only is known ILip. 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 Marsupialanimals, consisting of
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