TABLE OF CLASSIFICATION, 



INCLUDING THE NAMES OF ANIMALS MENTIONED IN THIS WORK. 



VERTEBEATA. 



Mammalia (mamma, the breast). 



PLACENTALIA ( placenta, a flat 



cake). 

 QTJADRUMANA (qualuor, four, ma- 



niLS, a hand.) 

 Gorilla. 

 Semnopithecus. 



CHEIROPTERA (x^p, the hand, 



irrepov, a wing). 

 Corynorhinus. 

 Pteropus. 



INSECTIVORA (insecta, insects, voro, 



to devour). 

 Erinaceus. 

 Talpa. 



CARNIVORA (carnis, flesh, voro, to 



devour). 

 Canis. 

 Felis. 

 Herpestis. 

 Lutra. 



Machairodus. 

 Phoca. 

 Ursus. 

 Viverra. 

 Vulpes. 



KUMINANTIA* (ruminare, to chew 



the cud). 

 Camelus. 

 Cervus. 



Camelopardalis. 

 Hyeemoschus. 

 Moschus. 

 Tragulus. 



OMNIVORA* (omnis, all, voro, to 

 devour). 



Sus. 



PERISSODACTYLA (nepinaoq, redun- 



dant, da.K.rv'kog, a finger). 

 Equus. 

 Hyrax. 

 Rhinoceros. 



PROBOSCIDIA (proboscis, a trunk, 



fero, to carry). 

 Elephas. 



KODENTIA (rodo, to gnaw). 

 Cavia. 

 Castor. 

 Lepus. 

 Mus. 

 Sciurus. 



EDENTATA (edentuia, toothless). 

 Bradypus. 

 Dasypus. 

 Manis. 

 Myrmecophaga. 



SIRENIA (oeiprjv, a siren). 

 Halicore. 



CETACEA (nfjro^, a whale). 

 Balsena, 

 Catodon. 

 Phocsena. 



IMPLACENTALIA (im, neg., pla- 

 centa). 



MARSUPIALIA (marsupium, a 



pouch). 

 Dasyurus. 

 Didelphis. 

 Macropus. 

 Phascolomys. 



a hole). 

 Echidna. 

 Ornithorhynchus. 



*The orders Ruminantia and Omnivora are by Owen included in a single 

 group, Artiodactyla (apnoj, perfect, <5a/cAoj, a finger). 



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