TUB WHALES. 



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commonest species is the little brown bat ( Vespertilio sui- 

 ulatus) ; nearly as common is the red bat or Atalapha 

 noveboracoisis. 





Order 5. Cete {Oetacea, Whales). — The foregoing orders 

 belong to a series called Inediicabilia, because they are not 

 generally so intelligent as the succeeding orders, their brain. 



