. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. KATUBAL CAPE JVMPING HAUE. separate, the tail bushy, and the hind feet furnished with four toes having broad, hoof like nails. This is a much larger animal than any of the preceding, being about the size of the common Hare, which it also resembles in its colours. Tlie Jumping Hare inhabits a considerable portion of South Africa, extending on the west coast at least as far as Angola. It is abundant at the Cape of Good Hope, both in the mountains and in the plains. Great numbers of the animals often live together, and their burrows,
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. KATUBAL CAPE JVMPING HAUE. separate, the tail bushy, and the hind feet furnished with four toes having broad, hoof like nails. This is a much larger animal than any of the preceding, being about the size of the common Hare, which it also resembles in its colours. Tlie Jumping Hare inhabits a considerable portion of South Africa, extending on the west coast at least as far as Angola. It is abundant at the Cape of Good Hope, both in the mountains and in the plains. Great numbers of the animals often live together, and their burrows, which, like those of other Dipodidfe, are inhabited by numei'ous individuals as a common residence, consist of many-branched galleries made at no great depth from the surface, but leading into a more deeply-seated habitation. They generally go about slowly upon all- fours, but can advance with extraorditiary rapidity by Kangaroo-like springs, in each of which, when pressed, they will cover a space of- twenty or thirty feet. Tlieir food consists of roots, seeds, and lierbage. The female produces three or four young at a birth. SECTION III.—PORCUPINE-LIKE EODENTS {HYSTRICOMORPHA). FAMILY This first family of the Porcupine alliance consists of a number of rat-like animals, nearly all of which are inhabitants of South America, three species only being peculiar to the large West Indian Islands, whUst, singulai-ly enough, four more are known from difierent parts of the African continent. Except in one of these last, all the members of the family have four molars on each side in each jaw, and the crowns of these teeth show internal and external folds of enamel. The malar jjortion of the zygomatic arch has an angular process at its lower Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original D
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