160 = ON _‘THE CLASSIFICATION OF 
representing — as seen in the above table—the gig: 
elephants, and the other Pachydermes. — Bl 
further into the secondary analogies expressed in th 
table. The Solipedes, or horses, and the Pavonide, o 
peacocks, are already disposed of ; while, in the types 
the Ruminantes (as the deer and antelopes), and ¢ 
the partridges (Tetraonide), the shortness of the tail 
is one of their great peculiarities. The Struthionida 
or ostriches, still more beautifully represent the 
Pachydermes in their great bulk ; while the obtuse horn 
protuberance of the cassowary is a most striking repre-_ 
sentation of the short horn of the rhinoceros. The 
pigeons (Columbide) in one order, and the Hdentates 
in the other, follow next; let us, therefore, see how far 
these groups are analogous. The Edentates, or ant- 
eaters, are remarkable among the hoofed quadrupeds for 
having the greatest prolongation of muzzle, and in 
having the shortest feet: the muzzle of birds is their 
bill ; and the bills of the Columbide, or pigeons, are th 
longest and the most slender, considering the size of the 
birds, of any among the Rasores ; while their feet possess 
the opposite extreme of shortness: each, again, are the 
most aberrant in their respective circles. M. Cuvier is — 
decidedly of opinion that the extinct Anaplotheres, like 
the modern tapirs, lived in the vicinity of water or i 
marshes, and that they thus became semi-aquatic. Such 
are the localities of the American Cracide, or curassow 
birds, as we know from personal observation; while 
their long and somewhat rigid tail preserves that affinity 
to the Scansores which has been already mentioned. ~ — 
(182.) The precise manner in which this order is 
connected to that of the perchers, through the medium — 
of the Scansores, has been variously stated. M. 
Cuvier considers that the Musophagide, or plantain- 
eaters, approximate on one hand to the Scansores; 
and on the other to the Gallinacea ; and this opinion | 
has been so strongly taken up by others, that no ‘t 
even a doubt has been expressed on the subject. We 
have, however, already traced the affinity between the 
iantaii-eaters! the plantain-cutters, the finches, and — 
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