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MARSUPIATA.—PHASCOLOMYIDA.
Genus Puascotomys. (GEOFF.)
The general form of this animal strongly re- minds one of some of the Cavies, but is more clumsy and massive. ‘The head is large and bluff,
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WHIMPER a WOMBAT,
with the upper part flattened ; the eyes very small, the ears also small and pointed ; the nostrils widely separated. ‘lhe limbs are short; the feet broad, and naked beneath; the claws large and solid, those of the fore-feet but slightly curved, and, as has been said above, formed for digging.
The arrangement of the teeth may be thus expressed : —inc. >; can. -; mol. — = 24,
