TABLE OF CLASSIFICATION, 



INCLUDING THE NAMES OF ANIMALS MENTIONED IN THIS WORK. 



VERTEBRATA. 



Mammalia (mamma, the breast). 



PLACENTALIA ( placenta, a flat 

 cake). 



QUADRUMANA (quatuor, four, ma- 



nus, a hand.) 

 Gorilla. 

 Bemnopithecus. 



CHEIROPTERA (xdp, the hand, 



7rrtp<5v,,a wing). 

 Corynorhinus. 

 Pteropus. 



INSECTIVORA (insecta, insects, voro, 



to devour). 

 Erinaceus. 

 Talpa. 



CARNIVORA (carats, flesh, voro, to 



devour). 

 Canis. 

 Felis. 

 Herpestis. 

 Lutra. 



Machairodus. 

 Phoca. 

 Ursus. 

 Viverra. 

 Vulpes. 



RUMINANTIA* (ruminare, to chew 



the cud). 

 Camelus. 

 Cervus. 



Camelopardalis. 

 Hycemoschus. 

 Moschus. 

 Tragulus. 



OMNIVORA* (omnis, all, voro, to 



devour). 

 Sus. 



PERISSODACTYLA (Trep/raof, redun- 



dant, (Jd/cruXof, a finger). 

 Equus. 

 Hyrax. 

 Rhinoceros. 



PROBOSCIDIA (proboscis, a trunk> 



fero, to carry). 

 Elephas. 



RODENTIA (rodo, to gnaw). 

 Cavia. 

 Castor. 

 Lcpus. 



Mus. 

 Sciurus. 



EDENTATA (edentuta, toothless). 

 Bradypus. 

 Dasypus. 

 Manis. 

 Myrmecophaga. 



SIRENIA (oetpyv, a siren). 

 Halicore. 



, a whale). 



CETACEA 

 Balsena. 

 Catodon. 

 Phocsena. 



TMPLACENTALIA (im t neg., pla- 



centa). 



MARSUPIALIA (marsupium, a 



pouch). 

 Dasyurus. 

 Didelphis. 

 Macropus. 

 Phascolomys. 



a hole). 

 Echidna. 

 Ornithorhynchus. 



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

 group, Artiodactyla (apnoj, perfect, <5u*ruAoj, a finger). 



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