The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . MARSUPIATA. The Yapach {Did. palmata, Geof.; Lutra memtna, Bodd, fig. 42) frequents the rivers of Guiana. All the other Marsupials inhabit easterncountries, and especially New Holland ; aland of which the mammiferous populationseems even to consist principally of ani-mals of this group. [The three next genera, and probablythe fourth, possess no coecum.] The Thylacines {Tliylacinus, Tem.)—Are the largest of this first division : theyare distinguished fro
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . MARSUPIATA. The Yapach {Did. palmata, Geof.; Lutra memtna, Bodd, fig. 42) frequents the rivers of Guiana. All the other Marsupials inhabit easterncountries, and especially New Holland ; aland of which the mammiferous populationseems even to consist principally of ani-mals of this group. [The three next genera, and probablythe fourth, possess no coecum.] The Thylacines {Tliylacinus, Tem.)—Are the largest of this first division : theyare distinguished from the Opossums bythe hind-feet having no thumb, by a hairyand not prehensile tail, and two incisorsless to each jaw; their molars are of thesame number. They have accordinglyforty-six teeth; but the external edge ofFig. 42.—The Yapach. ^j^g j^ij^ee large ones is projecting and trenchant, almost like the carnivorous tooth of a Dog: their ears are hairy, and of middle size. But one [living] species is known, a native of Van Diemens Land.—Size that of a [.small] Wolf, but lower on thelegs; of a greyish colour, barred with black across the cruppe
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