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TEGUMENTARY ORGANS. 



Calcareous deposits in the cndcron. Deposits 

 of this kind are very frequent in the Inverte- 

 brata. In the Pnlmonate and some Gasteropocl 

 Mollusks, for instance, globular masses of car- 

 bonate of lime are scattered through the en- 

 deron,and would almost seem to take the place 

 of fat. In nudibranchiate mollusks, such as the 

 Dorida?, spicula of like nature are met with, 

 and these sometimes unite into true internal 

 shells, as in the genus Villiersia. The greater 

 part of the skeleton of the Actinoid polypes, 

 and the whole of that of the Echinoderms, is 

 composed of calcareous networks of this kind, 

 and globular masses of calcareous matter are 

 scattered through theenderon of the Taeniadas, 

 though the clear spherical bodies observed in 

 these worms are by no means always of this 

 nature. Whether these enderonic calcareous 

 deposits ever take place in the Vertebrata ap- 

 pears to me to be, as I have said above, an 

 open question, only to be decided by a very 

 careful examination of the mode of growth 

 of their so-called " dermal 1 ' bones. 



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(T. H. Huxh-y.) 



RUMINANT1A (Lat. ruminare, to chew 

 the cud), Eng. Ruminants ; Fr. Ruminans ; 

 Ger. Wicderkauende Thiere, a well defined 

 order of mammalian quadrupeds, presenting 

 the following essential characters : Upper 

 jaw in nearly all cases destitute of incisor 

 teeth, their place being supplied by a callous 

 pad, while the lower jaw has six incisives ; 

 canines inconstant ; molars usually six on 

 each side of both jaws, with flattened crowns 

 surmounted by two double and irregularly 

 crescentic folds of enamel. Stomach com- 

 pound and divided into four cavities, so as 

 to provide for the ruminating act. Ccecum 

 large. Placenta generally in the form of 

 cotyledons. Feet ungulate and bisulcate. 



This order forms two natural divisions, 

 comprising the Hornless ruminants (akera- 

 tophora, Col. H. Smith) which are few in 

 number, and the Horned ruminants (kera- 

 tophora) which are very numerous. The 

 English naturalist Ray, who was the first to 

 propose a classification based on philosophical 

 principle, enumerated only fifteen species. 

 Pallas subsequently divided the entire family 

 into six genera, and the Baron Cuvier into 

 eight or nine; but the number of subdivisions 

 held to constitute genera by later authorities 

 has been very greatly extended. To serve 

 our present purpose we shall retain only 

 the Linnean and two other genera, which 

 may be conveniently arranged under the five 

 following heads or sub-orders : 



fCamelus - - Linn. 



\Auchenia - - Hliger. 



fMoschus - - Linn. 

 -I Cervus - Linn. 



( Camelopardalis - Linn. 



f Antilope - - Linn. 



\ Catoblepas - Smith. 



( Capra - Linn. 



\ Ovis - Linn. 



Bovis - - Linn. 



The Camelidae differ in many important 

 particulars from the horned ruminants, and 

 exhibit an approximation to the Pachy- 

 dermata. The dental formula is peculiar; 

 thus in the genus Camelus there are,- 



I. 



II. CERVID.E 



III. ANTILOPID^E - 



IV. CEGOSCERID.E - 



V. BOVID^E - 



1 1 



1 1 

 1 1 



p. m 



2 2 

 1 1 



m.- 



3 3 

 3 3 



and in this respect the Auchenias, or Llamas, 

 disagree only in the number of molars, which 

 is usually fourteen. The distinguishing fea- 

 tures of this family depend principally upon 



