W CLASS I. ORDER VII. 



growing from the skin ; feet terminate in three 

 toes. 



HYRAX, (cape-badger, lamb of Israel,) incisors 

 above two, broad, somewhat distant; below 4, 

 broad, flat, doubly notched ; grinders large, 4 oa 

 each side of each jaw ; 4 toes to each fore foot, 8 

 to each hind foot 5 tail none ; collar bones none. 



PALEOTHERIUM, (extinct animal) incisors six^ 

 and canine teeth two in each jaw ; feet terminate 

 in three toes ; trunk, or proboscis, must have been 

 short and fleshy. 



TAPIR, (tapir,) incisors 10 above and below? 

 canines single, and incurvated ; grinders 5 on each 

 side, very broad ; 3 hoofs to each foot, with a false 

 one on the fore foot. 



EQUUS, (horse, zebra,) incisors above 6, paral- 

 lel, below 6, somewhat projecting ; canines 1 on 

 each side above and below, remote from the rest ; 

 hoofs undivided. 



ORDER VIL RUMIKANTES. 



Incisors below only ; feet with cloven hoofs ; 

 animals chew the cud. 



CAMELUS, (camel, dromedary,) horns none; in- 

 cisors below 6, somewhat thin and broad ; ca- 

 nines 3 above, 2 below, distant ; upper lip di- 

 vided. 



MOSCHUS, (musk,) horns none ; incisors below 

 8 ; tusks in the upper jaw exsert, solitary. 



CERVUS, (deer, stag, elk, moose,) horns solid, 

 (covered while young with a hairy skin growing 

 from the top) naked, annual, branched ; incisors 

 below 8 ; canines none (sometimes a single one) 

 in the upper jaw. 



