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 | | Australia is inhabited by at least 110 different species marsupials, which is about two-thirds of the known species; these ye been arranged in five tribes, according to the food they eat,., the grass-eaters (kangaroos), the root-eaters (wombats), the ect-eaters (baadicoots), the flesh-eaters (native cats and rats), 3 the fruit-eaters (phalangers). |
 | | Australia and smania possess two animals of this orderthe echidna, or spiny Ls odd animal is provided with a bill or beak,whichisnot,likethat a; a bird, affixed to the skeleton, but is merely attached to the skin sp d muscles. |
 | | Immigration to Australia has been very slight since 1891, owing originally to the stoppage of progress consequent on the bank crisis of 1893, and, subsequently, to the disinclination of several of the state governments towards immigration and their failure to provide for the welfare of immigrants on their arrival. |
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