SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



Icon. Buffon, pi. 35. Schreb. tab, 70. Pennant, Quad, 

 f. 94. 



Inhabits Central Africa. 



Obs. This or a similar species is figured in Marsden's 

 Sumatra, t. 18. 



Genus VI. — Chlamyphorus. 



Incisors % ; canines ^;^ ; cheek-teeth |:| ; the two first 

 pointed, the rest flat at top, and cylindrical in form ; shell 

 composed of a series of transverse plates ; toes five before, 

 and five behind, with long laterally-compressed nails; 

 tail short and turned downward ; lower-jaw articulated 

 almost in the manner of the Ruminantia and Pachydermata. 



728. 1. C. Truncatus. Body covered with a leather-like 

 shell, abruptly truncated behind, white silky hair under- 

 neath ; tail short, and bent under the abdomen. Length 

 about five inches. 



Chlamyphorus Truncatus, Harlan, New York Lyceum of 

 Nat. Hist. 



Icon. Harlan, I. c. and Zoological Journal, vol. ii. 



Inhabits North America. 



Section III. — Monotrema, or Monotremes*. 



Genus VII. — Echidna. 

 Toothless, but the palate aculeated ; muzzle flat, narrow, 

 and small ; tongue protractile; eyes small; external ears, 

 none ; paws short, and five toes ; a moveable sharp pointed 

 spur on the inner side of the hind-legs, through which an 

 acrid secretion is ejected ; tail short ; body covered with 

 spines ; large marsupial bones. Body capable of a spherical 

 shape. 



* The location of these two anomalotis j>cncra, in the present class, 

 places the systematist in the dilemma of admitting Mammalia without teats, 

 which have not as yet at least been discovered. 



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