GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF MAMMALIA 



INHABITING NORTH AMERICA. 



BY CHARLES L. BONAPARTE. 



Mammalia are vertebrated, warm blooded, viviparous 

 animals; suckling their young; breathing by lungs which 

 float freely in the chest, imperforated; the heart is bilocular 

 and biauricular. 



In the present state of science, they form the first class 

 of the first type of the animal kingdom. 



GENERAL DIVISIONS, 



Or, view of the natural families of the system, adopted 

 in classifying the North American Mammalia. 



Sub-class 1. Quadrupeda. 



Limbs four, obvious: head separated from the body by 

 the intervention of a neck. 



Section I. 



Unguiculata; nails covering only the tips of the digits. 



§ Three kinds of teeth. 



ORDER I. Primates. 



Mammae 3, pectoral: penis free: anterior limbs termi 

 nated by hands. 



Tribe I. Bimana. 



Family 1. Bimana. Anterior limbs only, terminated by 

 hands: body vertical, plantigrade. 

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