HABITS OF THE CHEETAH. 



(Gueparda Jubata.) 

 i 



IN most of the principal classes of mammalia' ano- 

 malous types occur, which, on account of their 

 partaking of the distinctive features of more than 

 one tribe, are by no means easy to arrange, and 

 must in many cases be regarded as links connecting 

 various genera. Thus, for instance, we have the 

 aye-aye, an animal that appears intermediate in 

 form between the galagos and rodents, resembling 

 the former in shape and in its nocturnal habits, 

 while it nearly approaches the gnawing quadrupeds 

 in the arrangement of the teeth and mammae. The 

 colugo, or flying lemur, also seems transitional be- 

 tween the order in which it is usually placed and 

 that of the bats, as the limb and tail are connected 

 by a membrane that serves to support the creature 

 in the air while leaping from tree to tree, and to 

 carry it for some considerable distance. Many 

 other instances might be brought forward, but we 



