CLASSIFICATION. 
ORDER 8. NATATORES, diving-birds, including the goose, swan, goosander, 
merganser, duck, petrel, gull, flamingo, cereopsis, sea-swallow, alba- 
tross, darter, gannet, frigate-bird, cormorant, pelican, diver, grebe, 
puffin, auk, penguin, &c. 
Class III. REPTII^IA, Reptiles : divided into four Orders, as follows : 
ORDER 1. CHELONIA, tortoises. 
ORDER 2. LORICATA, crocodiles and alligators. 
ORDER 3. SAURIA, lizards. 
ORDER 4. OPHIDIA, serpents. 
Class IV. BATflACniA, the frog kind : divided into five Orders, as follows : 
ORDER 1. ABTURA, including the tree-frog, common fi-og, toad, Surinam toad, &c. 
ORDER 2. URODELA, including the salamander, triton, &c. 
ORDER 3. AMPHIPNEUSTA, including the syren, axolotl, proteus, &c. 
ORDER 4. APODA, including the coecilia. 
ORDER 5. LEPIDOTA, including the lepidosiren paradoxura. 
Class T. PISCES, Fishes : divided into five Orders, as follows : 
ORDER 1. SELACHIA, including the thornback, torpedo, ray, sting-ray, saw- 
fish, and sharks, as the hammer-head, thrasher, dog-fish, sea-cat, &c. 
ORDER 2. GABIOIDEA, including the sturgeon, bony pike, amia, beluga, &c. 
ORDER 3. TELEOSTIA, including several sub-orders and a great variety of 
species, as the balistes, sun-fish, trunk-fish, sea-horse, fishing-frog, 
^ blenny, sea-wolf, sucking-fish, climbing-perch, mullet, sword-fish, 
pilot-fish, tunny, mackerel, John Doree, blepharis, chsetodon, pa- 
grus, perch, stickle-back, sea-snipe, bullhead, gurnard, wrasse, garfish, 
flounder, turbot, sole, halibut, plaice, haddock, whiting, ling, cod, 
roach, dace, chub, bleak, barbel, carp, pike, trout, salmon, shad, bass, 
tautog, white-fish, sheep's-head, weak-fish, blue-fish, alewife, grayling, 
char, smelt, pilchard, anchovy, sardine, sprat, herring, white-bait, 
electric eel, common eel, and many others. 
ORDER 4. CYCLOSTOMATA, including the lampreys. 
ORDER 5. LEPTOOARDIA, including the araphioxus lanceolatus. 
Division 11. MOLLUSC A: 
From the Latin, signifying a soft-shell nut, and including animals with soft bodies : comprised 
in seven Classes and various Orders, as follows : 
Class I. CEFHAIiOFOPA S divided into two Orders : 
ORDER 1. DIBRAMGHIAT A, including the cuttle-fish or sepia, squid, poulpe, &c. 
ORDER 2. TBTRABRANGHIATA, including the nautilus. 
Class II. ^ASTEROPOBA : divided into three Orders : 
ORDER 1. PULMOmPERA, including the slug and snails. 
ORDER 2. BRANCHIPERA, including the cowry, cyprtea, scorpion-shell, peri- 
winkle, limpet, elephant's tooth, doris, seolis, umbrella-shell, bubble- 
shell, &c. 
ORDER 8. HETEROPODA, including the sagitta, firola, carinaria, &c. 
Class III. PTEROPIIBA : divided into two Orders : 
ORDER 1. THEOOSOMATA, including the hyalea, &c. 
ORDER 2. GYMWOSOMATA, including the clio australis, &c. 
