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upwards, and either sharp or obtuse feet, occasionally 

 soled. They eat flesh, mostly that of warm-blooded 

 animals, and kill their prey themselves. 



Alliance\. Rodent-like Unguiculate Animals Schleicher. 



Feet short and oblique, mostly sharp claws without 

 entire soles. 



1. Mole-like Animals Martens. 



Sharp claws without soles, and no Kornzahn Mar- 

 tens and Otters. 



2. Squirrel-like Civets. 



Sharp, curved, and mostly retractile claws, superiorly 

 the Kornzahn Civet, Paradoxurus. 



3. Leporine or Hare-like Ichneumons. 



Straight claws with half soles Ichneumon, Ryzsena. 



Alliance 2. Kaumausartige Fossores. 



Large and straight claws with soles, no Kornzahn. 



1. Sloth-like Animals Mephitic Animals. 



Dental formula, like that of the Marten Skunk, 

 Mydaus. 



2. Wombat-like Gluttons. 



Dental formula, like that of Marten, but behind the 

 carnivorous is a small tubercular tooth which is wider, 

 being broader than long. 



3 . Opossum-like Badgers. 



The tuberculous tooth larger than the carnivorous 

 tooth, and nearly quadrangular. 



Alliance 3. Eaubmausartige Digitigrada. 

 Legs high and upright ; no soles. 



1. Mole-like Dogs. 



Claws blunt, the Kornzahn both in upper and lower 

 jaw. 



2. Shrew-like Hy&nas. 



Claws blunt ; no Kornzahn but a small Querzahn. 



3. Bat-like Cats. 



Claws sharp, curved, and retractile ; no lower tuber- 

 cular tooth, but a small upper one. 



Fam. 14. Lingual Thricozoa, Seals. 



Feet fin-shaped, the hinder pair stretched out, dental 

 formula complete, but the lateral teeth tolerably even, and 



