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LECTURE VII. 



On the Mammiferous Animals, 



Page 



Introductory remarks .... 305 



First order Primates . . . 307 



Ape tribes .... 308 



The ourang outang . . ... 310 



The lemur tribes . ... 324 

 The bat tribes . . . .324 



The common bat ..... 325 



The vampyre bat ..... 329 



Second order Bruta .... 335 

 The elephant, . . . .336 



The ornithorynchus paradoxus . . , 353 



LECTURE VIII. 



Mammiferous Animals continued. 



Third order Ferae . . . . 361 



General observations . . . . 362 



The jerboa ...... 368 



The kangaroo ..... 368 



Fourth order Glires .... 373 



The Beaver . . . .374 



Fifth orderPecora . . . 380 

 The common antelope . .381 



The gnou , 382 



The cameleopard .... 384 



The musk . . . . 386 



The pigmy musk . . . . . 386 



The camel . ... . 387 



On the domestic mammiferous animals . . , 393 



Sixth order- -Belluce .... 395 



The hippopotamus .... 395 



The tapir . . . . 399 



The hog and the horse ... . 400 



On the Whale tribes . . . , 405 



The narwhal, or sea unicorn . . . 407 



The common whale . ... 409 



The sperma ceti whale ... 412 



