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BLUMENBACH'S 

 CLASSIFICATION OF ANIMALS; 



Extracted from that Author's Manual of Natural History, translated by Gore. 



MAMMALIA. 



ORDER 



1. BIMANA. Man with two hands. 



2. QUADRUMANA. Animals with four hands apes, baboons, mon- 



keys, and makis (Lemurs) 



3. CHEIROPTERA. Mammiferous animals, in which the fore feet 



form membranes for flying bats. 



4. DIGITATA Mammiferous animals with separate toes on all four 



feet. This order is divided, according to the differences of the teeth, 

 into the following three families : 



(A.) Glires. With teeth like those of the mouse, as the squirrel, dor- 

 mouse, and other mice ; the marmot, guinea pig, jerboa, hare, por- 

 cupine. 



(B.) Fercc. Carnivorous animals, properly so called, and some other 

 genera, with teeth of the same kind lions, dogs, &c., the bear, 

 weasel, civet, opossum, hedgehog, shrew, mole. 



(C.) Bruta. Without teeth, or at least without fore-teeth, &c.~- 

 sloth, ant eaters, armadilloes, manis. 



5. SOLIDUNCULA The horse, &c. 



6. BISULCA. Ruminating animals with cloven feet the camel, the ox, 



the goat, the sheep, &c. 

 7 MULTUNGULA. Mammiferous animals, for the most part very large, 



unshapely, with bristles of scattered hairs, with more than two toes 



on each foot as swine (which have usually four toes,) the tapir, 



elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus. 

 6. PALM AT A.- Mammiferous animals, with feet made for swimming; 



subdivided according to the different forms of their teeth, into three 



families, as above : 



(A.) G/ires. The beaver. 



(B.) Fera. Seals, otters, &c. 



(C.) Bruta. Duck-billed animals walrus, manati j and from these 



the most suitable transition to order 



