MAMMALIA. 7D- 
ORDER IT. 
CARNARIAs 
This order consists of a considerable and varied assemblage 
of unguiculated quadrupeds, possessing like Man and the 
Quadrumana the three sorts of teeth, but which have no op- 
posable thumb to their fore-feet. Their food is animal, and 
the more exclusively so, as their grinders are the more tren- 
chant. Such as have them wholly or partly tuberculous, take 
more or less vegetable aliment, and those in which they are 
bristled with points live principally on Insects. © The articu- 
lation of their lower jaw, being transversely directed and 
hinge-like, allows of no lateral motion, it can only open and 
shut. 
Although the convolutions of the ficain are still tolerably 
well marked, it has no third lobe, nor does it cover the cere- 
bellum any more than in the following families; the orbit is 
not separated from the temporal fossa in the en the 
cranium is narrowed and the zygomatic arches widened and 
raised, in order to give more strength and volume, to the 
muscles of their jaws. Their predominant sense is that of 
smell, and their pituitary membrane is generally spread over » 
numerous bony lamine. ‘The fore-arm has still the power of 
revolving in nearly allof them, although with less facility than 
in the Quadrumana, and they never have the thumb of the 
anterior extremities opposed to the other toes. On aecount 
of the substantial nature of the aliment, and to avoid the pu- 
trefaction it would undergo by remaining too long in an elon- 
~’ gated canal, their intestines are less voluminous. 
~ There isa great variety in their forms and in the details of 
Thing ‘ 
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a Travellers should searel for certain animals drawn by Commerson, and which 
_M. Geoffroy has had engra ed. Ann. Mus. XIX, 10, under the name of Chetrogaleus. 
GpPhese figures seem to announce a new genus or subgenus of the Quadrumana. 
