. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE TASM AN I AN DEVIL. 38' The animal is a very conspicuous one, on account of the peculiar coloring of its fur and the brightly defined stripes which decorate its back. The general tint of the fur is a grayish-brown, washed with yellow, each hair being brown at its base and yellow towards the point. Along the back runs a series of boldly defined stripes, nearly black in their color, beginning just behind the shoulders and ending upon the base of the tail. The number of these stripes is
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE TASM AN I AN DEVIL. 38' The animal is a very conspicuous one, on account of the peculiar coloring of its fur and the brightly defined stripes which decorate its back. The general tint of the fur is a grayish-brown, washed with yellow, each hair being brown at its base and yellow towards the point. Along the back runs a series of boldly defined stripes, nearly black in their color, beginning just behind the shoulders and ending upon the base of the tail. The number of these stripes is various, being from fourteen to seventeen on an average. At the spot where they commence they are very short, but lengthen rapidly as they approach the tail, reaching their greatest length over the haunches, over which they are drawn to some extent. In many specimens the stripes are forked upon the haunches. Towards the tail the stripes again become short, and upon the baseof the tail are so abbreviated that they only cover its upper surface. The under parts of the body are gray. The tail is slightly compressed, and gradually tapers to its extremity. The eyes are large and full, and their color is black. The edge of the upper lip is white. ./x \. TASMANIAN DEVIL.—Diabulus ursinus. In this animal the marsupial bones are absent, their places being indicated by some fibrous cartilages that are found in the locality which these bones might be expected to fill. The character of the fur is not very fine, but it is short* rather woolly, and closely set upon the animal's skin. In front of the eye there is a small black patch, which runs round the eye, and surrounds it with a dark line. As mat be imagined, from the very expressive name which has been appropriated to the animal which is represented in the engraving, its character is not of the most amiable, nor its appearance the most inviting. Few animals have deserved their-popular titles better than the creature to whom the first c
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