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RUMINATING ANIMALS. 
The last ornithological volumes of our series were 
devoted to the most useful tribes among the feather- 
ed race — the families of the Gallinaceous Birds. 
For similar reasons, we now mean to occupy our 
next two volumes on the Mammalia, with the his- 
tory of those animals which are of equal utility, and 
appear to represent the same part in tliis higher circle 
of creatures— the Oxen and Sheep, the Camels, and 
the elegant and varied forms of the Deer and An- 
telope. 
The Ruminaniia, or those animals which chew 
the cud, have been so named from the faculty which 
the greater part of them possess, of bringing up their 
food from their stomachs, and again additionally 
masticating it— a property which, while it seems 
to impart a pleasing sensation, will render essential 
service in assisting the digestion of the various ve- 
getable substances, after they have undergone a pre- 
paration by the heat and juices of the stomach, 
ey coiistitute the Order Pecora of Linnmus, and 
e eig It Older of the Mammif^res of Cuvier, who 
