THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, 



ARRANGED IN CLASSES. ORDERS, AND GENERA, ACCORDING TO ITS 

 ORGANIZATION. 



It has long been customary to apply the terms ANIMAL KINGDOM, VEGETABLE 

 KINGDOM, and MINERAL KINGDOM, respectively, to the three grand portions of the 

 "mighty whole" into which, when speaking of the science of Natural History, the 

 countless productions of the Earth are systematically divided. In this simple and 

 obvious arrangement, the Animal Kingdom is conspicuously pre-eminent in rank 

 and importance ; inasmuch as it comprehends all organized and living beings pro- 

 vided with a mouth and stomach, and endowed with the powers of sensation and 

 voluntary locomotion. The Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms are, however, so 

 intimately blended together, that this description is an insufficient guide to distinguish 

 those organized beings which may be said to be on the confines of either Kingdom. 

 The possession of nerves being supposed to be indispensable to the power of 

 motion, a nervous system has been considered the distinguishing characteristic 

 of the Animal Kingdom, but in one division (Acrita, comprising Polypes, Infusoria, 

 Animalcules, Sponges, &c.) no traces of nerves have hitherto been discovered. 

 The best characteristic of the Animal Kingdom is the possession of a mouth or 

 aperture through which food is received, and a stomach in which it is digested, 

 and this would include all the organized beings which have ever been con- 

 sidered by naturalists to belong to the Animal Kingdom, except the various kinds of 

 sponges. Our limits are prescribed, and further observations must necessarily be 

 dispensed with in this place ; but the following beautiful remarks by Mr. Rymer 

 Jones so admirably illustrate the difficulty of drawing an exact line between the 

 Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms, that we gladly conclude in his words : " Light 

 and darkness are distinct from each other, and no one possessed of eye-sight would 

 be in danger of confounding night with day ; yet he who, looking upon the evening 

 sky, would attempt to point out precisely the line of separation between the parting 

 day and the approaching night, would have a difficult task to perform. Thus is it 

 with the Physiologist who endeavours to draw the boundary between these two 

 grand Kingdoms of Nature ; for so gradually and imperceptibly do their confines 

 blend, that it is at present utterly out of his power to define exactly where Vegetable 

 existence ceases, and Animal life begins." 



DIVISION I. 

 VERTEBRATA. 



CLASS I. 

 MAMMALIA 



Order I. BIMANA . 

 Man . 



(Quadrupeds) 



. 65 

 . 402 

 . 557 



Order II. QUADHTTMAKA 557 

 Monkey . . .427 

 Ape .... 27 



Orang-Outang 

 Chimpanzee 

 Gibbon 

 Siamang . 

 Ungka-Puti 

 Colobus 

 Douc . 

 Semnopithecus 

 Barbary Ape 

 Baboon . 

 Platyrrhini . 

 Cebidse 

 Mycetes 



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Spider Monkey 



Saki . 



Sajou . 



Sagoin 



Marmozet 



Jacchus 



Lemur 



Propithecus 



Lory 



Galago 



Tarsius 



Cheirogaletia 



Galeopithecus 



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