Macropodidæ (makropodide)

pl. [ ately enlarged. The head is long with large ears and lashed eyelids, the physiognomy resembling that of some rum i nants; the neck is slender, and the fore quarters are light, with small limbs ending in five-fingered hands. The hind have inner second and toes being much reduced and inclosed in skin; the weight of the body is borne upon the enlarged fourth and fifth digits. The stomach is sacculated and the diet strictly herbivorous, The dental formula is: 8 incisors above and 1 below on each side; 1 canine, 1 premolar, and 4 molars in each upper, no canine, 1 premolar, and 4 molars in each lower half-jaw in all, 30 teeth, of which the upper canines may be absorbed, and 1 molar on each side above and below may be decidu ous. The leading genera are Macropus, Halm at urus, Lagor. chestes, Petrogale, Dendrolagus, and Dorcopsis. See kangaroo, 2. Same as Macropod i ada. Macropodine (makro-po-dīnē), n. pl. [NL.,