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A GENERAL IDEA OF ANIMALS .... l. 

 VERTEBRATES, OR BACK-BONED ANIMALS . .8 



MAMMALS 11 



Man 11 



Monkeys, or Quadrumanes 12 



Flesh-Eaters, or Carnivores 16 



Plant-Eaters, or Herbivores 27 



Whales, or Cetaceans 38 



Bats, or Cheiropters ....... 43 



Insect-Eaters, or Insectivores 44 



Rodents, or Gnawers 46 



Edentates, or Toothless Animals 54 



Marsupials, or Pouched Animals 55 



Duckbills, or Monotremes . . . . . . .57 



BIRDS , . . 58 



Birds of Prey, or Raptores 60 



Climbers, or Scansores 66 



Perchers, or Insessores 70 



Scratchers, or Rasores 86 



Waders, or Grallatores 89 



Swimmers, or Natatores 94 



REPTILES 100 



Turtles 100 



Lizards, or Saurians . . 103 



Serpents, or Snakes 104 



BATRACHIANS 106 



Frogs and Toads 107 



Salamanders, Tritons, &c , .108 



FISHES 110 



Spine-Finned Fishes 112 



Soft-Finned Fishes 114 



Tuft-Gilled Fishes 120 



Puffers, &c. 120 



Sturgeons . 122 



Sharks, or Selachians . 122 



Cyclostomes 122 



