MAMMALIA. CETE. e?r,$%#*. 13 



losity on the inside above the knee on the forc-oncs, and another 

 juft under the knee on the hind-ones. 



45/ E. Adnus. Hoofs solid : over the shoulders a black- 

 ish cross: tail with long bristly hair at the ex- 

 tremity. 



2. The hybrid produce of a male Afs and a Mare. Mule.- 



3. The hybrid produce of a Horfe and a female Afs. Hinny. 

 Afs. Shaw Zool. t.2\6. Bujbn 4. t. 11. 



Body lefs and more clumfy than that of the horfe : head shorter 

 and thicker: ears slouching and reaching beyond the eyes-: neck 

 thick : along the bad a blackish i'tripa which is crofscd by another 

 on the shoulders : tail tipped with long hair J legs with a naked cal- 

 losity on the inside above the knee on the fore-ones, but not on the 

 hind-ones.. . . 



22. SUS. Swim. 



46. S. Scrofa. Body bristly on the fore-part : tail hairy. 



2. Hoofs undivided. 



Common Hog. Shaw Z00L t. 221, 222. Bufifcn 5, {. 14, 16. 17. 



Body thick and clumsy : ears oblong, acute : /tout cartilaginous, 

 truncate : tail clothed with hairs, shorter than the hind legs. 



ORDER VI. CETE. 



23. MONODON. Narwhal. 



47. M. Monoccros. 



Sea Unicorn. Sow. Brit. MifceL t. g. Shaw Zool. t. 225. 



Body 25 feet long, blackish on the back, white on the sides and. 

 belly with black fpots and ftrenks gradually tapering to the tail: teeth 

 projecting through the upper jaw, fometimes one fometimes" two, 

 about 7 feet and a half long, taper, pointed, very hard, white or 

 yellowish-white, fpirally twisted, with a slight groove : mouth 

 rather fmal.1 : front of the head very, obtui'e and rounded,: /piracLe 

 doubled within : eyes- fmall, blaek> placed about; half way down: 

 tongue long : pectoral fins fmall,. black : backwhh the rudiment of a 

 iiiV and near the tail a hard ridge : tail with, oblong lobes., 



24. BAL/ENA. Whale. 



48. B. Mysticelus. Spiracles serpentine, on the middle of 

 the head : back without fin. 



Common Whale. Shaw Zool. t. 226. Nat. Mi/c. 4. t. 133. 



Body from 50 to go feet long, generally black above and white 

 beneath : head conftituting nearly a third part of the whole body ; 

 upper-jaw obtufe and much narrower than the lower ; lower-jaw 

 pointed, and broader in the middle : mouth iinmenfe, long, curved 

 like the lettery": tongue foft, adhering to the lower-jaw, white with 

 black fpots at the sides : upper-jaw furnished at the sides with a re- 

 gular ferics of broad horny hairy plates, called. Whalebone : eyes 

 fmall, placed near the angles of the mouth : /piracies feated on a 

 protuberance near together, and bent like the letter S : pectoral-finis 

 broad, pointed* feated under the angles of the mouth: tail with 

 rather acute lobes, from the middle of which a sharpish angular 

 ridge runs up the middle of the back to about a third its length. 



49. B. Physalus. Spiracles on the middle of the head : 

 back with a fatty fin towards the lower extremity. 



Fin-fish. Shaw Zool. t. 227. Mart. Spitsb. p. 125. tab. 2. 



Body equal in length to the whale but much more slender, clear 

 brown on the upper-part, white below : lips brown, with numerous 

 oblique plaits like a twisted rope : upper-jaw furnished with laminae 

 of whalebone, shorter and fmaller than in the, whale, of a blueish 

 colour ; /piracies feated on a fmall prominence.: exes placed far 

 al'under as in the last, near the angles, of the mouth : pectoral-/-;^ a. 

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