

AR ORDERS. 
Examples. Sloth. armadillo, duckbill. 
6. Pacuyperma, thick-skin animals, with hoofs 
and without clavicles. 
Examples. Elephant, mastodon (extinct) hip- 
popotamus, hog, rhinoceros, paleotherium (ex- 
tinct,) tapir, horse, zebra. 
7. RuminantTes, animals which chew the cud, 
have incisors below only, and feet with cloven hoofs. 
Examples. Camel, musk, deer, girafi, ante- 
fope, goat, sheep, ox. 
8. Cure, aguatice animals, without any hind feet ; 
and whose fore feet are degenerated into fin-like 
limbs. 
Kxamples. Whale, dolphin, porpoise, nar- 
whal, physeter. 
II. CLASS AVES 
YS DIVIDED INTO SIX ORDERS. 


ak Accirirres, birds of prey, with strong hook- 
he puss & ‘ 
ed beaks and claws. They have four toes ; the 
? igh and Oe inner one of the other three are 
ig larg Era wee, 
= Sime eelienivorous ; feeding on other birds, 
or small ie upeds, reptiles, &e. 
a me ly “Vulture, hawk, buzzard, eagle. 
eae 
i> Pueeeay sparrow- -like birds ; including all 
uiioh are not swimmers, waders, or runners, climb- 
ers, birds of prey, or of the gallinaceous kind. 
Examples. Grackle, fly- -catcher, thrush, crow, 
oriole, warbler, wren, swallow, hum-bird, king- 
bird or bee-eater, king-fisher, lark, sparrow, robin, 
paradise-bird. 
