Identifier: europeotherconti00tarr (find matches)
Title: Europe and other continents
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Tarr, Ralph S. (Ralph Stockman), 1864-1912 McMurray, Frank Morton, 1862- (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Fig. 343. Undergrowth in the Austral-ian forest. RABBIT
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PLATYPUS T«e M,N.Co, Buffalo. KANGAROO Fig. 344. Some Australian animals. The platypus lays eggs like a bird or reptile. The kanga-roo, like other marsupials, carries its unprotected young in a pouch. Where elsehave we found large running birds like the emu? 468 AUSTRALIA the close-set stems of the gum — rising to a height of a dozenfeet — form a thicket through which a lost traveller may wan-der until death relieves his thirst. On the equable rainy slopes near the coast some of the gumtrees are giants, in some cases four hundred feet in height. Theyrival the Big Trees of California, which also thrive wheredamp winds blow from the ocean. The undergrowth of theforest, which is almost tropical in character, includes tree ferns,palms, and orchids. These dense woods are called the bush. We have already seen (p. 66) that the Australian animalsare peculiar (Fig. 344). Describe some of them. State the reasons for their differencefrom animals of other continents.History. — When discove

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