LADDER 417 



(Porpoise means Sea Hog, a name relating to the clumsy 

 shape and small piglike eyes of the animal.) 



Dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus. 



Length, 10-15 feet. 



ORDER OF HOOFED QUADRUPEDS 

 Ungulata 

 Ground animals, living chiefly on vegetable diet, a few" 

 sometimes taking animal food. 



DlYISTOX I 



(Xone are natives here) 



Toes one, three, or five, ending in hoofs. The Ehinoceros 

 belongs here ; also the Horse and Ass, both having one toe, 

 turned into a broad hoof. At the present day we have no 

 native wild horses, those that rove the plains being the chil- 

 dren of emigrants. 



Divisiox II 



Hoofed toes, even, two or four. Horns, when present, in 



pairs. 



A 



Omnivora 



Eaters of both animal and vegetable food. 



Family of Peccaries 

 Dicotylidas 



(Xumber of Xorth American Species, Two) 



Front foot of four toes, like the domestic pig ; three toes 

 on hind foot. 



Collared Peccary Dicofy/es angu/atus. 



Length, 3 feet. 



P> 

 Ruminantia 



Cud-chewing vegetable eaters. 

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