LADDEI} All 



(Porpoise means Sea Hog, a name relating to the clumsy 

 shape and small piglike eyes of the animal.) 



Dolphin . . . . .... Lagenorhynchus acutus. 



Length, 10-15 feet, 



ORDER OF HOOFED QUADRUPEDS 

 Ungulata 



Ground animals, living chiefly on vegetable diet, a few 

 sometimes taking animal food. 



DlVISKJX I 

 {Xiinc are natives here) 



Toes one, three, or five, ending in hoofs. The Rhinoceros 

 belongs here ; also the Horse and Ass, both having one toe, 

 turned into a broad hoof. At the present day we have no 

 native wild horses, those that rove the plains being the chil- 

 dren of emigrants. 



Division II 



Hoofed toes, even, two or four. Horns, when present, in 

 pairs. 



A. 

 Omnivora 



Eaters of both animal and vegetable food. 



Family of Peccaeies 

 Dicotylidae 



(Number of North American S])ocies, Two} 



Front foot of four toes, like the domestic pig; three toes 

 on hind foot. 



Collared Peccary Dicotyles angulaius. 



Lengtli, 3 feet. 



B 



Ruminantia 



Cud-chewing vegetable eaters. 



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