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MAMMALIA. 



CHARACTERS 



OF THE 



GENERA OF MAMMALIA. 



I. PRIMATES, 

 i. MAN. i. HOMO. i. Walks ere£t. The female menftruates, and has a hymen. 



2. Ape. 2. Simla, i. Have tulks, diftant from the other teeth. 



No tails. 



Short tails. 



Long, not prehenfile, tails, cheek-pouche?) and naked but- 

 tocks. 



Long prehenfile tails,no cheek- pouches, the buttocks clothed. 



Long, not prehenfile, tails, no cheek-pouches, the buttocks 

 clothed. 



3. Macauco. 3. Lemur. 3. Have fix fore teeth in the lower jaw. 



4. Bat. 4. Vefpertilio. 4. Their fore feet are palmated, for the purpofes of flying. 



A. Four fore teeth in each jaw. 



B. Four fore teeth above, fix below. 



C. Four fore teeth above, eight below. 



D. Two fore teeth above, fix below. 



E. Two fore teeth above, four below. 



F. Two fore teeth above, none below. 



G. No fore teeth above, four below. 

 H. No fore teeth in either jaw. 



I. The number and arrangement of the teeth unknown. 



II. 



* Apes. 



Simiae. 



** Baboons. 



Papiones. 



*** Monkeys. 



Cercopithech 



**** Sapajous. 



Sapaji. 



***** Sagoins. 



Sagoiin. 



Note — The figures preceding the Latin names exprefs the order of the Genera, as arranged by 

 Dr Gmelin; thofe which follow the Latin names are prefixed in his edition, apparently to mark the or- 

 der followed by Linnseus in the former edition; fuch as have no numeral after the Latin names are 

 new Genera adopted by Dr Gmelin. The figures which precede the Englifli names fhow the order ob- 

 ferved in this edition. — T. 



