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living young, and oviparous, or such as lay eggs, which are birds or feathered 

 fowl. 



Lastly, the viviparous are divided into aquatic, or the whale-kind, and terres- 

 trial (under which the author comprehends the amphibious) or quadrupeds ; 

 although all viviparous animals of this kind are not four-footed, there being one 

 exception, viz. the manati or sea-cow, which has but two feet. But all of them 

 without exception are hairy, and so may be distinguished from the whale- kind; 

 all of which have a smooth skin. 



Then follows a division and table of viviparous quadrupeds or viviparous hairy 

 animals : which are either hoofed or clawed. The hoofed are either whole- 

 footed, or whole-hoofed, as the horse and ass; or cloven-footed. The cloven- 

 hoofed are either bisulc, such as have the hoof divided into two parts, as the 

 ox, sheep, and goat, or quadrisulc, which have the hoof divided into four. 

 The former are either ruminant, such as chew the cud ; or non-ruminant, viz. 

 the hog-kind. The ruminant are divided in respect of their horns, of which 

 there are three kinds. 1. The beef-kind, which have four teats. 2. The sheep- 

 kind, which bear wool, have but two teats, and have wreathed horns. 3. The 

 goat-kind, which have straighter horns, and are covered with hair, instead of 

 wool ; and such as have solid, branched, and diciduous horns, as the deer-kind. 

 The clawed have the foot divided either into two claws, viz. the camel-kind, or 

 into more, called therefore multifidous. The multifidous are divided into such 

 as have broad nails, and a human shape, as apes and monkies, and such as have 

 narrower and pointed nails. These latter, in respect of their teeth, are divided 

 into such as have many fore teeth or cutters in each jaw ; and such as have but 

 two, all which last are herbivorous or phytivorous animals, and from the most 

 known creature of this tribe called the hare-kind. 



Those that have more fore teeth or cutters are distinguished into greater, 

 which have either a shorter snout, and round or square head ; or a longer 

 snout and head: these from their likeness to the most known animals of each 

 kind, the cat and the dog, we call the former the cat-kind, and the latter the 

 dog-kind : to the cat-kind belong the lion, tiger, leopard, ounce, &c. to the 

 dog-kind belong the wolf, fox, badger, otter, &c. and lesser, which from 

 their long slender bodies, like to the weazel, we call the vermine or weazel- 

 kind. To the cat-kind are referred some anomalous animals, viz. the bat, and 

 the American creature called ai or sloth. To the dog-kind, from their having 

 a longer snout, are referred the urchin or hedge-hog, the tatou or armadillo, 

 the mole, the shrew-mouse or erd, i. e. earth-shrew, the tamandua or antbear j 

 which has no teeth at all. 



