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CHAPTER IV. 
CARNIVOROUS QUADRUPEDS. 
64. WE now come to Quadrupeds (qguatuor, four ; pes, 
foot), four-footed Mammals. This sub-class includes most 
of the animals of any size that walk on the ground. It 
has two great divisions —the Unguiculata, or clawed 
Quadrupeds; and the Ungulata, or hoofed Quadrupeds. 
In the Unguiculata there are five orders: 1. Carnivora 
(caro, flesh, voro, to devour). 2. Insectivora— Insect- 
eaters. 8. Rodentia (rodo, to gnaw). 4. Edentata (e, 
without, dens, tooth). 5. Marsupialia, so called on ac- 
count of a marsupium, or pouch in the skin, in which 
the mother carries her young for some time after birth. 
The division Ungulata has two orders: 1. Pachyder- 
mata (rayue, pachus, thick; dpa, derma, skin), thick- 
skinned Quadrupeds, including elephants, horses, swine 
ete. 2. Ruminantia (7wmen, a stomach or paunch), cud- 
chewing Quadrupeds, as oxen, deer, camels, sheep, ete. 
65. The order Carnivora is divided into five families: 
1. Felidee (felis, cat), the cat tribe, including cats, tigers, 
lions, ete. 2. Canidze (canis, a dog), including dogs, 
wolves, foxes, etc. 3. Mustelidze (mzstela, a weasel), 
weasels, otters, ete. 4. Ursidee (ursus, a bear), the bear 
family, bears, raccoons, ete. 5. Phocidee (¢wxn, phoke, a 
seal), seals, walruses, etc. 
66. Many of the animals which we have already no- 
ticed have the power of living in whole or in part upon 
animal food, as, for example, man and some of the mon- 
key tribe. But they can digest vegetable food also, and 
can even subsist wholly upon it. Even those which live 
on animal food alone, as some of the bats, eat insects and 
worms, and not the flesh of the larger animals, on which 
