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SUBKINGDOM VERTEBEATA. 



Mg. 78. 



Fig. 79. 



Eyes of a Giraffe. 

 Fig. 80. 



Tongue of a Giraffe. Camdoparddlis giraffa, Giraffe. 5 V 



lion. The long tongue is prehensile, and so flexible as to 

 be flattened and rounded like a plate, or contracted to enter 

 a quill. In mimicry it resembles the branchless trunks among 

 which it stalks and upon whose umbrella tops it feeds. * 



Bovidse. The Ox family comprises ruminants having 

 horns and cloven feet. It may be tabulated according to the 

 structure of the horns. 



* "In the case of the Giraffe, which is invariably met among venerable forests, 

 where innumerable blasted and weather-beaten trunks occur, I have repeatedly been 

 in doubt as to its presence, until I had recourse to my spy-glass; and on referring 

 the case to my savage attendants 1 have known even their optics to fail, at one time 

 mistaking these dilapidated trunks for camelopards, and again confounding real 

 camelopards with these aged veterans of the forest." Gumming" s Adventures. 



