MAMMALIA, PECORA. Camel. 2$j 



V. PECORA. 



Have no fore-teeth in the upper jaw ; the lower jaW 

 has fix or eight fore-teeth, which are placed at a 

 considerable diflance from the grinders The feet 

 are armed with hoofs The teats of the females 

 ar ; iituated on the groins. 



All the animals of this order have four ftomachs, already defcribed among the characters of the 

 orders, in the introduction to the clafs of Mammalia ; in confcquence of this ftrufture they all feed 

 on vegetable food, and ruminate, or chew the cud ; that is, having fwallowed their food almoft 

 whole, while feeding, it remains for fome time in the firft ftomach, where it is macerated in the 

 gaftric juice, and afterwards, when the animal is at reft, it is brought up in mouthfuls, is fully chew- 

 ed, and again fwallowed for digeftion. They are likewife all hoofed, or have their feet armed with 

 horny {hoes-, without toes and claws ; thefe hoofs are divided by a cleft in the middle into two por- 

 tions ; and beiides thefe all except the Camel have two loofer falle hoofs, on the back part of each 

 foot, which do not reach the ground in walking. Such of them as have horns have no tulles, and 

 thofe which have tufks want horns *. Moft of them are fubject to a kind of balls in their ftomachs, 

 formed of hair licked off their bodies and fwallowed ; thefe are named Aegagropila. 



XXXIII. CAMEL.— 32. CAM ELUS. 27. 



Has no horns. In the lower jaw are fix thin broadilh cutting 

 teeth; at fome diflance from thofe and from the grinders 

 there are two tufks on each fide in the lower, and three in 

 the upper jaw. The upper lip is divided. 



1. Arabian Camel. — 1. Camelus Dromedariui. 1. 



Has one hunch on the back. Briff. quad. 45. Raj. quad. 143. Forfk. faun, orient. P. iv. 



K«f«j)Ao 5 Ag«£io;. Arift. hifti an. lib. ii. c. i. — Camelus Arabicus. Plin. lib. viii. c. iS. — Camelus 

 dromas. Gefn. quad. 171. f. p. 172. Pr. Alp. JEg. i. 223. t. 1.. — Camelus. jonft. quad. 95. t. 41. 



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* Linnaeus mentions one folitary objeclion to this rule, having feen the fkull of a Roe which had 

 both horns and tulks. 



