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282 The general form of this animal strongly reminds one of some of the Cavies, but is more clumsy and massive. The head is large and bluff,

WOMBAT.

with the upper part flattened; the eyes very small, the ears also small and pointed; the nostrils widely separated. The 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.