SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



Duck-billed Platypus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. i. 229. Water 

 Mole of the Colonists. 



Icon. Nat. Miscel. and Gen. Zool. Blumem. I. c. pi. 14. 

 Peron, l. c. pi. 34. 



Inhabits New Holland. 



732. 2, O. JFm^cw^ (Brown Onithornchus). Fur flat, crisp, 

 and blackish-brown above. 



Ornithorynchus Fuscus, Peron and Leseur Voy. Teras 

 Aust. O. Crispatus, Wernerian Trans. 



Icon. Peron Atlas, t. 34, /. 1, 5, 6. Leach, Zool. Misc. 

 t. 111. 



Inhab. New Holland. 



Order VI.— PACHYDERMATA. 



Skin very thick, whence the Order is named. Some ge- 

 nera partially edentatous, others with the three sorts of 

 teeth; quadrupedal, generally with hoofs, and the toes vary- 

 ing in number ; stomach simple; without clavicles. 



Herbivorous or omnivorous. 



Habits various. 



Inhabits the temperate and torrid zones. 



Obs. Three families or sections of this Order have been 

 marked: — 1. The Proboscidiana, including the Elephants. 

 2. The Pachydermata, including all the remaining genera 

 in the Order, except 3. The Solidungula, or Horses. 



There are several extinct genera belonging to this Order 

 known only by their fossil remains. 



Genus I. Elephas. 



Incisives enormously elongated, and called liisks ," ; ca- 

 nines l\^, cheek-teeth |j = 10. Incisives slightly arched 

 toward their extremity, composed of ivory, incased with a 

 crust of enamel ; cheek-teeth composed of vertical and 



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