COT^TENTS. 



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A GENERAL IDEA OF ANIMALS .... 1 



VERTEBRATES, OR BACK-BONED ANIMALS . . 8 



Mammals U 



Man 11 



Monkeys, or Quadrumanes 12 



Flesh-Eaters, or Carnivores 16 



Plant Eaters, or Herbivores 27 



Wliales, or Cetaeeans 38 



Bats, or Cheiropters 43 



Insect-Eaters, or Insectivores 44 



Rodents, or Gnawers 46 



Edentates, or Toothless Animals 54 



Marsupials, or Pouched Animals 55 



Duckbills, or Monotremes 57 



Birds 58 



Birds of Prey, or Raptores 60 



Climbers, or Scansores 66 



Perchers, or Insessores 70 



Scratchers, or Rasores 86 



Runners, or Cursores 89 



Waders, or Grallatores 89 



Swimmers, or Natatorea 94 



Eeptiles ^^^ 



Tuitles 100 



Lizards, or Saurians '03 



Serpents, or Snakes '0* 



Bateachians 106 



Frogs and Toads '07 



Salamanders, Tritons, &c 108 



Fishes HO 



Spine-Finned Fishes 112 



Soft-Finned Fishes 114 



Tuft-Gilled Fishes 120 



Puffers, &c 120 



Sturgeons 122 



Sharks, or Selachians 122 



Cyclostomea 123 



