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DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS. 
[PART I. 
Order— CARNIVORA. 
Faiu. 
Pinnipedia 
Fissipedia 
Arctoidea 
Cynoidea 28. Canidee . 
■{ 
J 29. Mustelidae 
30. Procyonidae 
31. iEluridas... 
32. Ursida: ... 
r 33. Otariidse . . . 
< 34. Trichechidoe 
{ 35. Pliocidas.... 
r 23. Felidae . . . 
] 24. Cryptoproctidae 
Cats, Lion, &c. 
Cryptoprocta. 
Civets. 
Aard-wolf, 
Hyaenas. 
Dogs, Foxes, &c. 
Weasels. 
Racoons. 
Pandas. 
Bears. 
Eared Seals. 
Walrus. 
Seals. 
The Cetacea is one of those orders the classification of which 
is very unsettled. The animals comprising it are so huge, and 
there is so much difficulty in preserving them, that only a very 
few species are known with anything like completeness. A con- 
siderable number of genera and species have been described or 
indicated; but as many of these are founded on imperfect speci- 
mens of perhaps a single individual, it is not to be wondered at 
that those few naturalists who occupy themselves with the study 
of these large animals, cannot agree as to the proper mode of group- 
ing them into natural families. They are, however, of but little 
importance to us, as almost all the species inhabit the ocean, and 
of only a few of them can it be said that anything is accurately 
known of their distribution. I therefore consider it best to follow 
Professor Cams, who makes a smaller number of families ; but 
I give also the arrangement of Dr. Gray in his British Museum 
catalogue of whales and seals, as modified subsequently in 
the Proceedings of Zoological Society , 1870, p. 772. The Zeu- 
glodontidse, a family of extinct tertiary whales, are classed by 
Professors Owen and Carus between Cetacea and Sirenia, while 
Professor Huxley considers them to have been carnivorous and 
allied to the seals. 
