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 the family is terrestrial, and its numerous species progress by leaps effected by the long hind-limbs, which are



decidedly, often greatly, longer than the fore-limbs. In the hind-limb the fourth toe is very long and strong; the fifth moderately so; the second and third are slender and united by skin. The tail is always long, but differs in its characters from