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parts both of Europe and Asia, and are very abundant 
in Norway and Siberia. The digitigrade carnivora of 
Cuvier, form part of the order Ferae of Linnaeus, as do 
the small insectivorous animals also contained in this 
Case, as the Shrew Mice ( Sorices , Linn.), the Common 
Mole ( Talpa europaa , Linn.), the Tanrec, from Ma¬ 
dagascar, and the common Hedgehog (. Ermaceus ecau - 
datus? and europceus, Linn.), and the Tupaia java - 
nica, from Sumatra,—a singular animal, described by 
the late Sir Stamford Raffles, in the Thirteenth Vol. of 
the Linnaean Transactions. In this Case are also some 
of the minor marsupial animals, as the Spotted Dasy- 
urus (Z). macrourus , Desm.), the Wombat (. Phascolomys 
fusca , Desm.), and the Pigmy Opossum ( Didelphis 
pygmcea , Shaw, Petaurista pygmceus, Desm.), all 
from New Holland. 
Cases 22 and 23 contain various animals of the order 
Glires of Linnaeus, as Hares, Rabbits, and Porcupines; 
also some of the smaller Edentata (Bruta, Linn.), as 
two species of Armadillo (. Dasypus duodecimcinctus , 
Linn., and D. minutus, Desm.), from South America; 
the long and the short-tailed Manis, the former from 
India, the latter from Africa (M. tetradactyla and pen - 
tadactyla, Linn.),—very young specimens of the two 
and the three-toed Sloth (Bradypus didactylus and tri - 
dactylus , Linn.), and the Small Ant-eater (Myrmeco- 
phaga didactyla , Linn.), from South America; and the 
Ornithorhynchus, or Duck-billed Platypus, from New 
Holland. 
The forms of the Armadillo and the Manis, and the 
curious shields with which they are furnished by nature, 
are sufficiently wonderful; but the structure of the Or¬ 
nithorhynchus is so anomalous, that Dr. Shaw, who 
first described this 44 most extraordinary genus ” in the 
Naturalist’s Miscellany, hesitated whether to admit it 
into his History of Quadrupeds, in the first volume of 
his General Zoology,—for as the original description 
was given from the only individual at that time known, 
44 it was ”, he tells us, 44 impossible not to entertain some 
doubts 
SALOON. 
Nat. Hist. 
