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GLOSSARY. 



Accipitres ; the Rapacious class of birds, according to the Linnaeaa system. 



Ambulatory ; a tribe of walking birds, with three distinct toes before, and one behind. 



Anal ; in fishes, a name applied to the fin near the anus. 



Anseres ; the class of swimming birds. 



Antenna: ; the horns of an insect. 



Apodal; an order of fishes with bony gills and no ventral fins. 



Aptera; an order of insects without wings. 



Bellua; an order of mammalia, having obtuse teeth in each jaw, and undivided hoofs. 



Bivalve ; a shell consisting of two parts, connected by a hinge. 



BranchicE ; the gills of a fish. 



Bruta; an order of mammalia, entirely destitute of front teeth. 



Canine teeth ; two sharp-pointed teeth in each jaw, in man, called the eye-teeth. 



Ccecum; one of the lower intestmes. 



Caruncle; a fleshy protuberance. 



Carinated ; ridged like the keel of a ship. 



Cere ; the membrane covering the bill of a bird. 



Ciliary; belonging to the eyelids. 



Clavicle ; the collar bone. 



Coleopterous; a name applied to insects with crustaceous coverings to their wings. 



Coverts ; in a bird, the feathers lying about the base of the wing. 



Crustaceous ; covered with a homy shell. 



Cuneiform; wedge-shaped. 



Cuspid ; ending in a point. 



Dentated ; furnished with teeth. 



Dig-itated; furnished with fingers or toes. 



Diptera ; a class of insects with two wings. 



Distichous; disposed in two rows. 



Emarginate ; notched at the end. 



Elytra; the crustaceous coverings to the wings of coleopterous insects. 



Entomostraca ; a tribe of animals inhabiting the water, and which unite the characters 

 of the insect and the oyster. 



ExuvicE ; the slough or cast skin of a reptile. 



Femur ; the thigh. 



Ferce ; a class of mammalia with six front teeth in each jaw, and one canine tooth on 

 each side in both jaws. 



Filiform; thread-shaped. 



Gallinaceous ; a name applied to those birds akin to the domestic fowl. 



Glires ; a class of mammalia with two long front teeth in each jaw, and no canine teeth. 



GrallcB ; the tribe of birds which wade in the water, but do not swim. 

 Gressorial; a term applied to the feet of walking birds, which have the fore toes con- 

 nected, but without a membrane. 



Hemiptera ; a tribe of insects half crustaceous. half membranous. 



Hyaline; resembling glass. 



Imbricated ; lying over each other like the tiles on a roof. 



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