LECTURE IL 59 



the Mammalia, as well as to these. We must 

 therefore be content to use the JLinnman word 

 unchanged. 



The Order Bi^uta is characterized by a want of 

 front or cutting teeth, both in the upper and lower 

 jaw. The feet are armed with strong claws: their 

 pace is, in general, somewhat slovv, and their food 

 is principally vegetable. 



In the rapid and general survey which the term 

 allotted for our lectures permits us to take of the 

 animal world, we can only mention the chief or 

 leading particulars in each order. The genera 

 which should properly compose the Linn^an order 

 Bruta are those of Bi^adypus or Sloth ; Dasypus or 

 Armadillo ; Manis or Pangolin 3 and Myrmecophaga 

 or Ant-Eater; and lastly, the new or lately dis- 

 covered genus Platypus, Ornithorynchus, or Duck- 

 bill, All the animals belonging to these genera 

 are totally destitute of front-teeth, and some are 

 destitute of ail teeth*. 



* Linnaeus himself preferred the Elephant to the order Bruta, 

 but it seems to' be the general opinion of later Zoologists that it 

 should more properly be referred to a different order. The same 

 may be said of some other quadrupeds sometimes stationed by 

 authors among the Bruta of the Linnsean arrangement. 



