MAMMALIA. 



~7 THE CLASS MAMMALIA IS DIVISIBLE INTO TWO GREAT SECTIONS, 



PLACENTALIA AND MARSUPIALIA: 



CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING ORDERS : 

 Order. Example. 



I. BIMANA (Two-handed) Man. 



II. QUADRUMANA (Four-handed) .... Monkeys, &c. 



III. CHEIROPTERA (Wing-handed) . ... Bats. 



IV. CARNIVORA (Flesh-eating) Dogs, Tigers, &c. 



V. INSECTIVORA (Insect-eating) Moles, Hedgehogs, &c. 



VI. CETACEA (Cete, Lat. Whale) ." . . . Whales, Porpoises, &c. 



VII. PACHYDERMATA (proper) (Thick-skinned) . Rhinoceros, &c. 



(aquatic) . Duyong, &c. 



VIII. RUMINANTIA (Ruminating) Ox, Deer, &c. 



IX. RODENTIA (Gnawing) Rats, Porcupines, &c. 



X. EDENTATA (Toothless) Sloths, Armadilloes, &c. 



XL MARSUPIALIA (Abdominally-pouched) . Kangaroos, Opossums, &c. 



In the Section, PLACENTALIA, so named from a predominating feature in the 

 reproductive system of the animals comprehended in it, the first ten orders 

 are included. Foetus ad uterum maternum annexus, per medium placentae 

 verse, diverse conformatae, diversis mammalibus ; vel, in loco illius, membrana 

 villosa, et vasculari, ^wptoi/ dicta\ 



In the Section, MARSUPIALIA, thus denominated from the almost universal posses- 

 sion of an external abdominal pouch, is comprised a group of animals 

 provisionally placed, by CUVIER and others, in an order to which the same 

 title has been given. Foetus ad uterum maternum haud intermedio placentae 

 verae annexus. 



