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THE CABINET OF NATURAL HISTORY, 
•ORDER 
ORDER 
4. Digitata. Mammiferous animals with separate 
toes on all four feet. This order is divided, accord- 
ing to the difference of the teeth, into the following 
three families: — 
(A.) Glires. — With teeth like those of the mouse, as 
the squirrel, dormouse, and other mice; the mar- 
mot, guinea-pig, jerboa, hare, porcupine. 
(B.) Ferae. — Carnivorous animals, properly so called, 
and some other genera, with teeth of the same kind — 
lions, dogs, &c., the bear, weasel, civet, opossum, 
hedgehog, shrew, mole. 
(C.) Bruta. — Without teeth, or at least without fore 
teeth, &c. — sloth, ant eaters, armadilloes, manis. 
5. Solidtjngula. The horse, &c. 
6. Bisulca. Ruminating animals with cloven feet — 
the camel, the ox, the goat, the sheep, &c. 
57. Multijngttla. Mammiferous animals, for the 
most part very large, unshapely, with bristles of 
scattered hairs, with more than two toes on each 
foot — as swine, (which have usually four toes,) the 
tapir, elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus. 
8. Palmata. Mammiferous animals with feet made 
for swimming; subdivided, according to the different 
forms of their teeth into three families, as above: — 
(A.) Glires. — The beaver. 
(B.) Ferae. — Seals, otters, &c. 
(C.) Bruta. — Duck-billed animals — walrus, manati; 
and from these the most suitable transition to order. 
:9. Cetacea. Whales, warm-blooded animals, which 
have nothing in common with cold-blooded fishes, 
but the name; and the natural connexion of which, 
with mammifera, was correctly remarked even by 
Kay. 
BIRDS. 
(a.) Land Birds. 
a. Accipitres. Birds of prey; with strong hooked 
beaks, mostly with short, strong, knotty feet, and 
large, crooked, sharp claws — the vulture, the fal- 
con, the owl. 
2. Levieostres. With short feet; and very large, 
thick, but mostly hollow, and therefore light bills — 
parrots, toucans, &c. 
3. Pxci. With short feet; moderately long and 
small bills, and the tongue sometimes worm-shaped, 
sometimes thread-like — the wry neck, woodpecker, 
creeper, humming-bird, &c. 
4. Coraces. With short feet, and the bill mode- 
rately long, tolerably strong, and convex above — 
ravens, crows, &c. 
5. Passeres. The singing birds, with swallows, &c. 
The feet short, the bill more or less conical, pointed, 
and of various length and thickness. 
6. G allin®. Birds with short feet, the hill some- 
what convex above, and having a fleshy membrane 
at the base — the pigeon, the partridge, the pheasant, 
the peacock, the common cock, &c. 
7. Struthiones. Large land birds unsuited for fly- 
ing — the ostrich, cassowary, and dodo. 
(b. ) Water Birds. 
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Grall®. Birds found in marshes with long feet; 
long, and almost cylindrical bills, and generally a 
long neck — the heron, the bittern, the plover, the 
rail, &c. 
Anseres. Swimming birds with oar-like feet; a 
short bill covered with skin, generally serrated at 
the edge, and terminated at the extremity of the 
upper jaw by a little hook — the swan, goose, duck, 
and the various species of sea fowl. 
AMPHIBIA. 
Reptiles. Amphibia with four feet — tortoises, 
frogs, lizards. 
Serpentes. — Serpents, without any external organs 
of motion. 
FISHES. 
(a.) Cartilaginous , without true hones. 
(b.) Bo?iy Fishes — Fishes properly so called. 
(a.) 1. Chondropterygii. Without an operculum, 
or covering of the gills — as the shark, the lamprey, 
the torpedo, the skate, the saw fish, &c. 
(a.) 2. Branchiostegi. With an operculum — the 
sturgeon, the globe fish, the sun fish, &c. 
(b. ) 3. Apodes. Without ventral fins — the eel, the 
sword fish, &c. . 
(b.) 4. Jugulares. Having the ventral in front of the 
pectoral fins — the haddock, the cod, the piper, &c. 
,(b.) 5. Thoracici. Having the ventral immediately 
below the pectoral fin — the dory, the plaice, the 
flounder* 
