Note 85 — Chapter X

The following is Owen’s account of the young after birth (Comp. Anat. of Vertebrates, Vol. III. p. 717): “On the eighth of December Dr Bennet discovered in the subterranean nest of Ornithorhyncus three living young, naked, not quite two inches in length.” On the 12th of August, 1864, “a female Echidna hystrix was captured ... having a young one with its head buried in a mammary or marsupial fossa. This young one was naked, of a bright red colour, and one inch two lines in length.”