par- gular of all marsupial mammals—s class of animals con- able with that of the New Zealand bird, the apteryx; be- fined exclusively to Australia and the adjacent islands. sides, it has only three clawed toes to each foot, and, more- These animals were known to neither Buffon nor Linneus, over,… … generation ” of living beings was possible. The life are known) are not, like the duck mole, aquatic in BRUIJN'S PORCUPINE ANT EATER history of the Gordius aquaticus, as naturalists name the their habits, so their feet are not webbed, but are fur hair eel, is perfectly well known. It passes the…
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