CONTENTS. 



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Birds (continued). Page 



TRIBE IV. LAMELL1ROSTRES 35$ 



Ducks 358 



Swans 358 



Geese 358 



True Ducks 358 



Periodical migrations of 358 



CHAPTER XXVII. 

 FOURTH CLASS OF VERTEBRATE ANIMALS. 



MAMMALS 359 



Essential character of 359 



Classification of, on what based 361 



Connecting-link 361 



SUB-CLASS OVO-VIVIPARA 361 



ORDER I. MONOTRBMATA 361 



Duck-billed Platypus 362 



Porcupine Ant-eater 363 



ORDER II. MARSUPIALIA (Pouched Quad- 

 rupeds) 363 



For what remarkable 363 



Kangaroos 364 



Opossums 364 



Dasyuri 365 



Phalangers 365 



Bandicoots 366 



Mynnecobius 366 



Wombat 367 



Carnivorous Marsupialia very few in 



number 367 



Zebra Wolf 367 



SUB-CLASS II. PLACEXTALIA 368 



Placental Quadrupeds 368 



ORDER CETACEA 368 



Cetacea are Mammals deprived of hinder 



Limbs 370 



They breathe Air 370 



Their Blood is hot.. 37 



"Blubber" 370 



SECTION I. ORDINARY CETACEANS 37* 



Dolphins properly so called 372 



Common Dolphin 372 



Porpoises 372 



Common Porpoise 372 



Grampus 372 



Narwhals 372 



Sea-U nicorn 372 



SECTION II. TRUE WHALES 373 



Whale's head exceedingly large 373 



Cachalots 373 



Whalebone Whales 375 



Whalebone forms a kind of sieve 375 



SECTION III. HERBIVOROUS CETACEA 375 



Have Teeth with flat crowns 375 



Sea-Cows 376 



Dugongs 376 



ORDER PACHYDERMATA 377 



SECTION OF PROBOSCIDIAN PACHYDERMS . 378 



Elephants 378 



Indian Elephants 379 



African Eiephants 379 



SECTION OF ORDINARY PACHYDERMS 379 



Hippopotamus . 379 



H g s 380 



Rhinoceros 381 



Tapirs _ "," 381 



SECTION OF SOL1PEDES 382 



Horses ". 382 



Ass "',"' 382 



Mammals (continued). Page 



Zebra 383 



Quagga 383 



Onager 384 



ORDER RUMINAKTIA 384 



Divided into two sections..... 385 



RUMINANTS WITHOUT HORNS 385 



Camels 385 



Llamas 387 



Alpaca 387 



Vicunia .. 387 



Musks 388 



Other Musks have no Musk-pouch 388 



RUMINANTS WITH HORNS 388 



Horns cf three kinds 388 



RUMINANT WITH HORNS PERMANENTLY 



COVERED WITH HAIRY SKIN 390 



Giraffe 390 



RUMINANTS WITH DECIDUOUS HORNS* 391 



Stags 391 



RUMINANTS WITH HOLLOW HORNS 391 



Antelopes 392 



Goats 392 



The genus Sheep 393 



Argali 393 



The genus Ox 394 



The Common Ox 394 



The Auroch 395 



Bison 395 



Buffalo 395 



Cape Buffalo 395 



\ak 396 



Musk Ox 397 



ORDER RODENTIA 397 



Live on the harder parts of vegetables... 397 



Chisel-like Teeth 397 



Rodents are timid and feeble 397 



Beavers 398 



Classification of Rodentia 309 



Musk-Rat of Canada 400 



Water-Rat 401 



Lemmings 401 



Donnicdf. 401 



Rats 401 



Hamsters , 401 



The Harvest Mouse 401 



The Squirrels 402 



Common Squirrel 402 



Flying Squirrels 404 



Porcupines 404 



Common Porcupine 404 



The Hares 404 



The Common Hare 404 



The Rabbit 404 



Rat Hares 405 



Cavies 45 



Capybara 45 



Guinea Pigs 45 



Agoutis 45 



Jerboas 405 



ORDER EDENTATA 407 



Includes all Quadrupeds having separate 



Toes, without incisor Teeth 47 



Sloths, their structure adapted to their 



mode of life 407 



Armadillos 408 



Ant-eaters 409 



Tamanoir or Ant-Bear 409 



Scaly Ant-eaters 411 



Cape Ant-eaters 411 



Ground Hog 411 



Old age permitted to Man alone 411 



