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THE 



THIRD ORDER 



OF THE 



MAMMALIA. 



THE CARNASSIERS 



These form a considerable and very various as- 

 semblage of unguiculated quadrupeds, which, like 

 man and the quadrumana, possess the three kinds 

 of teeth. They all subsist on animal matter, and 

 more exclusively so in proportion as their cheek- 

 teeth are more of a trenchant character. Such of 

 them as have these teeth altogether or in part tu- 

 berculous, also take mpre or less of vegetable sub- 

 stances, while those who have them bristling with 

 conical points, principally subsist on insects. The 

 articulation of their lower jaw, directed cross-wise, 

 and clasping like a hinge, does not allow of any ho- 

 rizontal motion ; it can only shut and open. 



Their brain, although tolerably furrowed, has no 

 third lobe, nor does it form a second covering for 

 the cerebellum in these animals any more than in 

 the families which succeed them. The orbit is not 

 separated from the fossa temporalis in their skele- 

 ton. Their cranium is narrow, and the zygomatic 



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