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The thumb and little finger claws are also strong but shorter than the others; being only from 6 to 7 tenths of an inch. The fleshy root of the thumb claw is smaller and more flexible than the rest. The sole of the paw is hard, but the upper part is covered with the common hair down to the roots of the claws which it overhangs.
The hind legs are less strong and muscular than the fore. Their length to the sole is 5.5 tenths inches; the distance between them, across the belly, is 7.5 tenths inches. The paw is longer than the fore but not less fleshy: its length is 2.7 tenths inches, its breadth 2.6 tenths inches. The claws are four in number: The three inner are less strong, but about 2 tenths of an inch longer than the longest of the fore; and there is a fleshy spur in the place of a thumb claw. The whole paw has a curve which throws its fore part rather inwards.
The anus is situated 1.6 tenths inches below the tail; its verge is surrounded by reddish black hairs.
In size the two sexes are nearly the same but the female is perhaps rather the heaviest. There were no scales nor weights where I made my observations upon the Wombat.
The sexual distinctions seem to be the only mark for discovering which is the male, which the female; so much are they alike.