ORDERS OF MAMMALS 



The Orders of Living Mammals 



OBDEH 



Primates 



Feeae, or 

 Carnivora . 



PiNNIPEDIA . . . 



Insectivora . . 



PRONUNCIATION MEANING 



.Pri'matz First order. . . 



Fe're I Flesh-eating 



^^^^ 1 Wild Beasts 



. Pin-ni-pe'dia .... Fin-footed . . . . 



. In-sec-tiv' o-rah . . . Insect-eaters . . 



Chiroptera . . . . Ki-rop'ter-ah Wing-handed 



Glires, or 



rodentia 



Gli'rez Gnawers 



. Pro-bos-cid'e-a . . . With proboscis 

 . Hy-ra-coi'de-a 



Ungulata^ Un-gu-la'tah Hoofed. 



Proboscidea 

 Hyracoidea . 



Cete 



SiRENIA 



Edentata . . . 



.Se'te Whales 



. Si-re'ne-a Sea-Cows . . . 



. E-den-ta'ta Toothless ... 



Effodientia . . . 

 Marsupialia . . 

 Monotremata . 



.Ef-fo-de-en'shia . .Diggers . . . . 

 . Mar-su-pi-a'li-a . . Pouched . . . , 

 . Mon-o-trem'a-ta . . Single duct 



EXAMPLES 



Man, apes, and mon- 

 keys. 

 Cats, dogs, bears, 



martens. 

 Sea-lions, seals, walrus. 

 Moles and shrews. 

 Bats and flying 



"foxes." 

 Hares, gophers, rats, 



squirrels. 

 Cattle, deer, sheep, 



swine, tapirs. 

 Elephants only. 

 Hyraxes only. 

 Whales, porpoises, 



dolphins. 

 Manatee and dugong. 

 Armadillos, sloths, 



and ant-eaters. 

 Pangolin, aardvark. 

 Opossum, kangaroo. 

 Platypus and echidna. 



' In accordance with the requirements of exact science, Professor Henry Fair- 

 field Osborn divides the Ungulates into two Orders: the Artiodactyla, or Even- 

 toed, and Perissodactyla, or Odd-toed hoofed animals. On account, however, of 

 the place now held in the mind of the general reader and teacher by the long- 

 known Order Ungulata, I hesitate to make here a complete change in its form. 



