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DASYURE , a bookname for any member of the zoological See also:family Dasyuridae. (See See also:MARSUPIALIA.) The name is better restricted to animals of the typical genus Dasyurus, sometimes called true Dasyures. These are mostly inhabitants of the Australian See also:continent and See also:Tasmania, where in the See also:economy of nature they take the See also:place of the smaller predaceous See also:Carnivora, the See also:cats, civets and weasels of other parts of the See also:world. They hide themselves in the daytime in holes among rocks or in hollow trees, but prowl about at See also:night in See also:search of the small living mammals and birds which constitute their See also:prey, and are to some extent arboreal in See also:habit. The spot-tailed dasyure (D. maculatus), about the See also:size of a See also:cat, inhabiting Tasmania and See also:Southern See also:Australia, has transversely striated pads on the soles of the feet. These See also:organs are also See also:present in the See also:North Australian dasyure (D. hallucatus) and the Papuan D. albopunctatus, and are regarded by See also:Oldfield See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas as indication of arboreal habits; in the See also:common dasyure (D. viverrinus) from Tasmania and See also:Victoria, and the See also:black-tailed dasyure (D. geoffroyi) from See also:South Australia, these feet-pads are absent, whence these See also:species are believed to seek their prey on the ground. The ursine dasyure (Sarcophilus See also:ursinus), often called the " Tasmanian See also:Devil," constitutes a distinct genus. In size it may be compared to an See also:English See also:badger; the See also:general See also:colour of the See also:fur is black tingedwith See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown, with See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white patches on the See also:neck, shoulders, rump and See also:chest. It is a burrowing See also:animal, of nocturnal habits, intensely carnivorous, and commits See also:great depredations on the sheepyards and poultry-lofts of the settlers. In See also:writing of this species Krefft says that one—by no means a large one-escaped from confinement and killed in two nights fifty-four fowls, six geese, an See also:albatross and a cat. It was recaptured in what was considered a stout See also:trap, with a See also:door constructed of See also:iron bars as thick as a See also:lead See also:pencil, but escaped by twisting this solid obstacle aside.
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