BUM1NATING ANIMALS. 



As we reckon among the most useful tribes of tne 

 feathered race the families of the Gallinaceous Birds, 

 including Turkeys and Pheasants, &c. ; so, among 

 the Mammalia, the Oxen and Sheep, the Camels, 

 and the elegant and varied forms of the Deer and 

 Antelope, are of the greatest utility, and appear to 

 represent the same part in this higher circle of 

 creatures. 



The Ruminantia, or those animals which chew 

 the cud, have been so named from the faculty which 

 the greater part of them possess, of bringing up their 

 food from their stomachs, and again additionally 

 masticating it a property which, while it seems 

 to impart a pleasing sensation, will render essential 

 service in assisting the digestion of the various ve- 

 getable substances, after they have undergone a pre- 

 paration by the heat and juices of the stomach. 

 They constitute the Order Pecora of Linnaeus, and 

 the eighth order of the Mammiferes of Cuvier, who 



