SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



Manners peaceable, residing in pairs, families or iierds, 

 in forests, or on the plains. 



Inhabit nearly the whole earth, New Holland and Terra 

 del Fuego, and smaller islands excepted. 



The Order is divided into five tribes, 



Camelidffi. Cervidse. Giraffidee. CapridaB. Bovidae. 



Tribe I. — CamelidcE. 



No horns ; no succentorial hoofs ; no muzzle ; nostrils slit ; 

 upper-lip divided, separately moveable, and extensible ; 

 horny soles to the feet; toes covered with crooked ungui- 

 cular claws or nails; canines in both sexes; neck long; 

 limbs long ; lower abdomen drawn up under the pelvis, 

 retromingent. 



Genus 1. — Camelus, Lin. 

 Incisors |; canines \\\\ false molars \'^ ; molars |:4 = 36. 

 Inferior incisors in trenchant quoins, the superior lateral 

 and cuneiform ; canines conical, straight, robust ; false 

 molars on each side, separated from the other teeth ; in 

 the diastema, and uncinated ; head long ; chaffron convex ; 

 no sinus under the eyes ; nostrils slit obliquely, and closing 

 at pleasure; eyes prominent; ears small; pores at the 

 back of the head ; feet with toes only free, the rest united ; 

 neck bent; one or two huncljes on the back much deve- 

 loped; callosities on the sternum, and flexures of the ex- 

 tremities ; tail reaching to the tarsus ; mamma) four ; hair 

 woolly; the ventriculus with membranous cells, one of 

 w^hich is very large to contain water ; male organs slen- 

 der, reversed in a state of repose ; scaphoid and cuboid 

 bones of the tarsus separated ; stature very large ; belong 

 to the old continent. 



757. 1. C. Daclrianus (the Bactrian Camel.) Two 

 hunches on the back ; colour generally brown. 



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