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ORDER 
4. Digirata. Mammiferous animals with separate 
toes on all four feet. This order is divided, accord- 
ing to the difference of the teeth, into the following 
three families: — 
(A.) Glires.—With teeth like those of the mouse, as 
the squirrel, dormouse, and other mice; the mar- 
mot, guinea-pig, jerboa, hare, porcupine. 
(B.) Ferz.—Carnivorous animals, properly so called, 
and some other genera, with teeth of the same kind— 
lions, dogs, &c., the bear, weasel, civet, opossum, 
hedgehog, shrew, mole. 
(C.) Bruta.—Without teeth, or at least without fore 
teeth, &c.—sloth, ant eaters, armadilloes, manis. 
5. SoLipUNGULA. The horse, &c. 
6. Bisuca. Ruminating animals with cloven feet— 
the camel, the ox, the goat, the sheep, &e. 
7. MuLtTuneuLa. Mammiferous animals, for the 
most part very large, unshapely, with bristles of 
scattered hairs, with more than two toes on each 
foot—as swine, (which have usually four toes,) the 
tapir, elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus. 
. Patmarta. Mammiferous animals with feet made 
for swimming; subdivided, according to the different 
forms of their teeth into three families, as above:— 
(A.) Glires.—The beaver. 
(B.) Ferx.—Seals, otters, &e. 
(C.) Bruta.—Duck-billed animals—walrus, manati; 
and from these the most suitable transition to order. 
9. CETACEA. Whales, warm-blooded animals, which 
have nothing in common with cold-blooded fishes, 
but the name; and the natural connexion of which, 
with mammifera, was correctly remarked even by 
Ray. 
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BIRDS. 
(a.) Land Birds. 
1. ACCIPITRES. Birds of prey; with strong hooked 
beaks, mostly with short, strong, knotty feet, and 
large, crooked, sharp claws—the vulture, the fal- 
con, the owl. 
2. LervrrosTREs. With short feet; and very large, 
thick, but mostly hollow, and therefore light bills— 
parrots, toucans, &e. 
Su etCr. With short feet; moderately long and 
small bills, and the tongue sometimes worm-shaped, 
sometimes thread-like—the wry neck, woodpecker, 
ereeper, humming-bird, &c. 
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ORDER 
4, CorAcEs. With short feet, and the bill mode- 
rately long, tolerably strong, and convex above— 
ravens, crows, &c. 
5. PassERES. The singing birds, with swallows, &c. 
The feet short, the bill more or less conical, pointed, 
and of various length and thickness. 
6. GALLIN=. Birds with short feet, the bill some- 
what convex above, and having a fleshy membrane 
at the base—the pigeon, the partridge, the pheasant, 
the peacock, the common cock, &e. 
7. STRUTHIONES. Large land birds unsuited for fly- 
ing—the ostrich, cassowary, and dodo. 
(s.) Water Birds. 
8. GRALLE. Birds found in marshes with long feet; 
long, and almost cylindrical bills, and generally a 
long neck—the heron, the bittern, the plover, the 
rail, &c. 
9. ANSERES. 
Swimming birds with oar-like feet; a 
short bill covered with skin, generally serrated at 
the edge, and terminated at the extremity of the 
upper jaw by a little hook—the swan, goose, duck, 
and the various species of sea fowl. 
AMPHIBIA. 
1. Reprives. 
frogs, lizards. 
2, SerPeNTES.—Serpents, without any external organs 
of motion. 
Amphibia with four feet—tortoises, 
FISHES. 
(a.) Cartilaginous, without true bones. 
(z.) Bony Fishes—Fishes properly so called. 
(a.) 1. CHonDROPTERYGII. Without an operculum, 
or covering of the gills—as the shark, the lamprey, 
the torpedo, the skate, the saw fish, &c. 
(a.) 2. BRANCHIOSTEGI. With an operculum—the 
sturgeon, the globe fish, the sun fish, &e. 
(B.) 3. ApopEs. Without ventral fins—the eel, the 
sword fish, &e. 
(B.) 4. JUGULARES. Having the ventral in front of the 
pectoral fins—the haddock, the cod, the piper, &ce. 
(z.) 5. THoRACTICI. Having the ventral immediately 
below the pectoral fin—the dory, the plaice, the 
flounder. 
