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Order 6. — Carnivorous Quadrupeds — continued. 



Sable marten 



Skunks 



Otters 



Sea otter 



Second group of digitigrade camivora, how characterized 



The dogs 



Domestic dog 



Wolf 



The foxes 



The civets 



The civet (properly so called) 



The ichneumon 



Third group of digitigrade carnivora 

 Separated into — 



Hyenas 



How distinguishable 



Cats. 



Most formidably armed of all mammalia 



Silent tread of cats 



Lion .... 



Eoyal tiger 



Jaguar or American tiger 



Panther .... 



Leopard 



Lynx .... 



Common or domestic cat 



Amphibious carnivora 



Divided into two groups 



Seals .... 



Morses or walrus 

 Order 7. — Insect-eaters 



Insectivora 



Shrews 



Hedgehogs 



Common hedgehog 



Moles .... 



Their admirable conformation 



Hand of mole 

 Order 8. — Bats. Cheiroptera 



Mammiferous destroyers of inlets not restricted to 

 surface of ground 



Bats .... 



Divided into several families 



Fox bats .... 



Spear-nosed bats 



Vamphe bats . 



Horse-shoe bats . 



Common bats 

 Order 9. — Mammalia with four hands 



Quadrumana 



How distinguishable . 



Formed for living in trees . 



Flying cats 



