182 CLASSIFICATION OF MAMMALIA. 



watery element, include the most gigantic forms to be found in 

 the whole animal creation/' — Regne Animal, 2nd edit., p. 65. 



Having thus laid before our readers the principles which 

 have guided four of the most original writers on Natural 

 History in their primary arrangement of Mammalia, we shall 

 next subjoin a short tabular view of the genera or minor 

 groups included by Linnaeus and Cuvier in their respective 

 Orders. 



The System of Mammalia of Linnaeus, from the \2th edition 

 of the * Sy sterna JVaturce.' 



A. Unguiculata. 



I. Primates. 



Fore-teeth cutting ; upper ones parallel, 4 ; laniaries solitary. Teats 

 pectoral, 2. Food, fruits, except a few which use animal food. 1. Homo. 

 2. Simia. 3. Lemur. 4. Vespertilio. 



II. Bruta. 



Fore-teeth none in either jaw. Feet with large nails. Food mostly 

 vegetables. 5. Elephas. 6. Trichecus. 7« Bradypus. 8. Myrme- 

 cophaga. 9. Manis. 10. Dasypus. 



III. FKRiE. 



Fore-teeth conical, usually 6 in each jaw ; laniaries long ; molaries 

 pointed, conical. Food, carcasses and living prey. 11. Phoca. 12. Canis. 

 13.Felis. 14.Viverra. 15. Mustela. 16.Ursus. 17.Didelphis. 

 18. Talpa. 19- Sorex. 20. Erinaceus. 



IV. Glires. 



Front teeth cutting, 2 in each jaw. Food, bark, roots, vegetables, which 

 they erode or gnaw. 21 . Hystrix. 22. Leius. 23. Castor. 24. Mrs. 

 25. Sciurus. 26. Noctilio. 



B. Ungulata. 



V. Pecora. 



Fore-teeth cutting, many in the lower jaw, none in the upper jaw. Feet 

 bisulcate. 4 stomachs. Food, herbs, which they pluck, and afterwards 

 ruminate. 27. Camelus. 28. Moschus. 29- Cervus. 30. Capra. 

 31. Ovis. 32. Bos. 



VI. Bellu^:. 



Fore-teeth obtuse. Tread heavy. Food, vegetables. 33. Equus. 

 34. Hippopotamus. 35. Sus. 36. Rhinoceros. 



C. Mutica. 

 VII. Cete. 



Teeth in some horny, in others bony. In place of Feet they have 

 pectoral fins without claws ; and a horizontal flattened tail. Nostrils ter- 

 minating in 1 or 2 fistulous apertures at the anterior and upper part of 

 the head. Food, mollusca and fish. 37. Monodon. 38. Baltena, 

 39- Physeter. 40. Delphinus. 



