NATURAL HISTORY. 
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the outer sides of their feet with the claws turned in, as the scaly lizard 
(Manis). 
The American tribe of Armadilloes, on the contrary, have their body 
protected with a shield formed of rings of square pieces, three or more 
of the central rings being moveable, to enable the animal to roll itself up 
into a ball. They have grinders, and they walk on the soles of the feet 
with the claws expanded. They are chiefly nocturnal, living in holes, 
and are very good eating, as the armadillo ( Dasypus ), tatu ( Tatusia), 
and Prionodon, which have the shields imbedded in the skin of the body, 
with the central rings free and the tail exserted, and the Chlamyphorus , 
which has the shields all formed of moveable rings, only fastened to the 
middle of the back, which is covered on the sides with a soft fur, and 
the tail is inflected. 
In the other genera of this family the body is covered with hair, or 
rarely intermixed with spines, as the tribe of Oryc.teropes, ( Orycteropina , 
Case 52,) which have a very thick skin covered with bristles. They 
have cylindrical grinders, a very long emissile tongue, and depressed 
feet, which are expanded w 7 hen they w’alk, w T ith very long strong claws ; 
their tail is elongated ; they are confined to Africa, feed on ants, and sit 
on their haunches near ant-nests. 
The tribe of Ant-eaters, ( Myrmecophagina , Case 52,) on the contrary, 
are confined to tropical America, walk on the sides of the feet with the 
claw r s incurved ; they have no grinders, are covered with hair, and have 
an elongated slender head, with a very long exsertile tongue; their tail is 
exserted, and the males are destitute of any spurs, as the ant-eater 
(Myrmecophagct ), with a brush; the Tamandua with a conical, and 
the Cyclothurus , w’hich has a prehensile tail. 
The tribe of Platypi ( Ornithorhynchina, Case 53) have many of the 
characters of the former, but they are furnished with marsupial bones 
like the opossums, have a merrythought and cloaca like birds and rep¬ 
tiles, and the males are furnished with spurs, as the Platypus , which 
has a soft fur, webbed feet, and the bill like a duck; and the Echidna , 
which has a slender cylindrical beak, with a small mouth, and the body 
covered with large spines. 
The family of Sloths ( Bradypid^:, Case 53) have a short rounded 
head, no true cutting teeth, and the canines similar to the grinders. 
Their limbs are very long and weak, and their toes are armed with very 
long compressed claws; their stomach is divided into cells; they live 
on trees, eating leaves, and are confined to America, as the tw'o-toed 
sloth ( Chcelopus ), and the three-toed sloth (j Bradypus). 
Order V. Ungu¬ 
late. 
*Furcipeda (Pecora). 
Fam. 1 . Bovid^:. 
1. Bovina , 32—45. 
a. Bos, 32, 33. 
Bubalus. 
Anoa. 
Ovibos. 
b. Catoblepas. 
Portax. 
c. Strepsiceros. 
Boselaphus. 
Oryx. 
Kemas. 
Aeronotus. 
iEgocerus. 
d. Cervicapra. 
Antilope. 
Saiga. 
Gaze! la. 
Cephalophus. 
Madoqua. 
Nemorhedus. 
Eleotragus. 
Tragelaphus. 
Rupicapra. 
Aplocerus. 
e. Capra. 
Hemicapra. 
/. Ovis. 
Antelocapra. 
2. Camelopardina. 
Giraffa. 
3. Camelina. 
Camelus, 46. 
Auehenia, 46. 
4. Moschina . 
Moschus, 45. 
Meminna, 45. 
Tragulus, 45. 
5. Cervina, 47—51. 
'Muntjacus. 
Coassus. 
Mazama. 
Capreolus. 
Cervus. 
Axis. 
Hippelaphus. 
Dama. 
Tarandus. 
Alces. 
Fam. 2. Equidjel 
Equus. 
Asinus. 
