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below; spottrd and striped with various shades of grey when 

 young-. From the Molucca islands, straits of Sunda, &c. 



All the otlicr Cariiaria have the mammae situated under the 

 abdomen. 



FAMILY II. 

 INSECTIVORA. 



Tlic animals of this family^ like the Cheiroptera, have 

 grinders studded with conical points, and lead a nocturnal or 

 subterraneous life. Their principal food is Insects, and in 

 cold climates many of them pass the winter in a torpid state. 

 Unlike the Bats, they have no lateral membranes, although 

 they always have clavicles. Their feet are short, and their 

 motions feeble ; the mammse are placed under the abc^omen, 

 and the penis in a sheath. None of them have a csecum, and 

 in walking they all place the whole sole of the foot on the 

 ground. 



They differ from each other by the relative position and 

 proportions of their incisors and canini. 



Some have long incisors in front, followed by other incisors 

 and canini, all, even shorter than the molares, a kind of den- 

 tition of which the Tarsiers, among the Quadrumana, have 

 already given us an example, and which somewhat approx- 

 imates these animals to the Rodentia. Others have large sepa- 

 rated canini, between which are placed small incisors, the 

 most usual disposition of these parts among the Quadrumana 

 and the Carnaria ; and these two systems of dental arrangement 

 are found in genera, otherwise very similar in the teguments, 

 shape of the limbs, and mode of life. 



Erinaceus, Lin. 



The body of the Hedgehog is covered with spines instead of hairs. 

 The skin of the back is furnished with such muscles, as, by inclin- 

 ing the head and feet towards the abdomen, enable the animal to 

 shut himself up in it, as in a purse, presenting his' spines on all sides 

 to the enemy. The tail is very short, and there are five toes to each 

 foot. There are six incisors in each jaw, the middle ones being the 



