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Title: A hand-book to the marsupialia and monotremata
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Marsupials Monotremes
Publisher: London : E. Lloyd
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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General colour clear ashy grey ; chm white;under-parts greyish-white. Ears very large and rather pointed,the anterior portion of their backs dark brown, formmg amarked contrast with the lighter posterior part. Feet white.Soles of hind feet clothed for the greater portion of their extentwith velvety hairs, the naked parts granulated, without distinctstriated pads. Tail short, thickened, tapering, grey above, andwhite beneath. Ten teats. Length of head and body about3j^ inches ; of tail 2 inches. Distribution.—All Australia except the extreme north.Hal)its.-According to Krefft, this pretty little species breedsin Tuly and August, the female producing from six to ninevouncr which are placed in the shallow pouch. Occasionally,however, as many as ten are born in a litter. At times thecreature utters a kind of hoarse screech; but except for this is silent. 1 1. f 1. In confinement it appears to thrive fairly well; but if two 01 more are left together, they are almost sure to fall out, and
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THE NARROW-FOOTED POUCHED MICE. j^o seriously damage or kill one another. Like their allies, they areinveterate enem.es to Mice, which they fall upon at o;ce Jhgreat feroaty, k.lhng more than they can possibly devour. When treatmg of this species, Krefft makes an interestin<. remark re atmg to a peculiar habit of the family in gneaf A smgular peculiarity, he writes, in all the Lyur^^^t nH T TtI ^^ ^° -- --t. -hen aliveand though I do not want to find fault with Gou ds beautiful g: of thiT! r Tu ^^ ^^ *^ -P-entations h tT t: .^ We^fellur °^t ^ ° °^^^-« ^- ^e ear that the same remark would apply to theplates with wh.ch the present work is illustrated. 11. COMMON POUCHED MOUSE. SMINTHOPSIS MUK.NA PAas^o/ogaU murina, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1837, p. Fhascologale albipes, Waterhouse, op. at, 1842 p 48AntecMnusMginosus, Gould, Mamm. Australia, vol. i., pi. Antechimis alblpes, Gould, op. cit, pi. xlii.Antechinus murinus, Gould, op. at., pi xliii (P/aU XXIX.) cht wht ^- ^^^^^ &lt

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