THE 



SIXTH ORDER 



OF THE 



MAMMALIA, 



THE PACHYDERMATA. 



The Edentata terminate the series of unguiculated 

 animals, and we have seen that there are some 

 of these which have the nails so large, and so far 

 covering the extremity of the toes, as to approach 

 to a certain degree the hoofed animals. They have, 

 nevertheless, the faculty of bending the toes round 

 an object, and of seizing with more or less effect. 

 The entire absence of this faculty characterizes the 

 hoofed animals ; using their feet merely as sup- 

 porters, they never have clavicles ; their fore-arm 

 remains always in a state of pronation, and they 

 are reduced necessarily to feed on vegetables; their 

 forms and modes of living present fewer varieties 

 than those of the unguiculated Mammalia ; only two 

 orders of them can be established, those which ru- 

 minate and those which do not ; but the latter, which 

 we designate under the common name of Pachy- 

 derm ata, admit of some divisions into families. 



