. A manual of zoology. PHYLUM CHORDATA 529 nearly equally developed. In the hind-foot the fourth toe is much longer and stouter than the others, while the second and third are small and slender, and united together by a web of skin, and the first is vestigial or absent. The marsu- pium has its opening directly backwards. The wombats (Phascolomyidce) are large, heavy, thick- bodied, burrowing animals, with short flattened heads, short thick limbs, provided with strong claws on all the digits except the hallux, and with the second, third, and fourth of. Fig. 317. —Dasyure (Dasyurus vvserrinus).
. A manual of zoology. PHYLUM CHORDATA 529 nearly equally developed. In the hind-foot the fourth toe is much longer and stouter than the others, while the second and third are small and slender, and united together by a web of skin, and the first is vestigial or absent. The marsu- pium has its opening directly backwards. The wombats (Phascolomyidce) are large, heavy, thick- bodied, burrowing animals, with short flattened heads, short thick limbs, provided with strong claws on all the digits except the hallux, and with the second, third, and fourth of. Fig. 317. —Dasyure (Dasyurus vvserrinus). (After Vogt and Specht.) the hind-foot partly connected together by skin. The tail is very short. The kangaroos and their allies (Macropodidce) (Fig. 318) are adapted, as regards their limbs, for swift terrestrial locomotion. They have a relatively small head and neck, the fore-limbs small, and each provided with five digits ; the hind-legs long and powerful ; rapid progression is effected by great springing leaps, with the body inclined forwards and the fore-limbs clear of the ground. The foot is narrow and provided with four toes, the hallux being absent; the two inner (second and third) small and 2 M. 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 Parker, T. Jeffery (Thomas Jeffery), 1850-1897; Haswell, William A. (William Aitcheson), 1854-1925. New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co. ,Ltd.
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