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THE 



ANIMAL KINGDOM, 



O R 



ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEM, 



OF THE CELEBRATED 



Sir CHARLES LINNAEUS. 



CLASS I. 

 MAMMALIA: 



CONTAINING 



A COMPLETE SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTION, ARRANGEMENT, AND NOMENCLA- 

 TURE, OF ALL THE KNOWN SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF THE MAMMALIA, 

 OR ANIMALS WHICH GIVE SUCK TO THEIR YOUNG -, 



BEING A TRANSLATION OF THAT FART OF THE 



SYSTEMA NATURE 



AS LATELY PUBLISHED, WITH GREAT IMPROVEMENTS, 



By Professor G MEL IN of Goettingen, 



TOGETHER WITH 



NUMEROUS ADDITIONS FROM MORE RECENT ZOOLOGICAL WRITERS, 

 AND ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPERPLATES: 



By R B E R r KERR, F. R. Sc A. SS. E. 



I MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, AND OF THE ROYAL PHYSICAL SOCIETTj 



AND SURGEON TO THE ORPHAN HOSPITAL OF EDINBURGH. 



\ EDINBURGH:; 



Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, Londo 

 and 

 W. Creech, Edinburgh. 



1792. • 



