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saloon. Uvora , Gmel.).—Amongst the Digitigrade , or 
those animals which in walking rest principally 
on the extremities of their toes, are several va¬ 
rieties of the Dog-kind, as the Prairie Wolf 
(Canis latrans , Say.), from America, the Arctic 
Fox {Canis lagopus, Linn.), in different states, and 
the striped Hyaena {Canis Hyaena, Linn.). Over 
this Case is placed the Cape Ant-eater {Myr- 
mecophaga capensis, Gmel.), an animal of the 
Order Edentata, which have no incisive teeth. 
Cases 8 and 9 Carnivorous animals continued. 
-—Amongst these are the Wild Cat {Felis catus , 
Linn.), and several varieties of the common do¬ 
mestic Cat; the Puma {F. concolor , Linn.), 
and a Mule-Whelp between the Lion and^ Ti¬ 
ger, born in Atkins 3 travelling menagerie, at 
Windsor. Also several specimens of the com¬ 
mon Otter (Mustela Ultra, Linn.),—the Sea 
Otter (M. lutris , Linn.), and the Common 
Seal —Phoca vitulina , Linn.). 
Case 10 contains some of the Marsupial 
animals, which Cuvier has classed in a separate 
Order, on account of the many peculiarities 
which they possess in their economy—the first 
and chief of which is, the premature production of 
their young, which, in a very early stage of their 
foetal state, pass from the uterus to an abdominal 
pouch, where, incapable of motion, and scarcely 
exhibiting any traces of external organs, they 
fix themselves to the mammae of the mother, 
and 
