Volume 1

Cassell's popular natural history.

Date:
[1865-1866]
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Credit: Cassell's popular natural history. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and powerful, well padded beneath, and provided with a strong, hook-like nail. The outer toe is smaller. The incisors of the upper jaw are six in number, the lateral one oil each side being the largest, and furrowed. A large, unfilled space exists between the incisors and molars, which are five on each side. The first, however, is a false molar, and is often wanting, being pushed out by the advance of those behind, as the posterior ones arise from their sockets. There are two long, powerful, pointed incisors in the under jaw ; they advance horizontally forwards, and have a sharp, oblique, external edge opposed to the edge of the upper incisors. • -* uiuvu ItAflUAK(K). alongTonTllkWWt!l,e ^anS“'°°S °“ ftI1 f°ur8 is awkwal'd and constrained ; but they hop or bound entirely vegetable Tl/8 !' gr®at 7® °°lty- Ge,ltle aud inoffensive in character, their food is a hoof-likeiail it is ,ll! « T °* ^ hmd foot is their defenaive weaP011, and, being armed will, The • ’ t0 ln ict a suvere blow. si 1 very-gray'1 above iLwhiTT‘°° CXCeedinS,y ,uimeroua TI»w » a large species,* of a greatly exceeds the female in 1 ! “d auotlK'r> the Great» or Gk)lt Kangaroo.t The male of the tail, the length 0f tb/l'T,’ ,n‘”l*unuS seven feet ten iuches the nose to the extremity the weight being 220 pounds V|'*. mo*e than throe feet. Instances have occurred of and under surface A whitish . . gcueml colour ilj uniform grayish-brown, grizzled on the arms mal'k rims ‘lb°ve the upper lip, and is faintly traceable along the ' linin'alums Parryi. t Macropua major, and M. gigantous: Sh.ov.