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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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The Wombat [Phascalomys, Geof.; lAmblolis, Bass]),—Comprehends a true Rodent according to the teeth and intestines, which preserves its relationship withthe Carnaria only in the mode of articulation of its lower jaw; and which, in a rigorous system, it A KHiigaruo will hug a Dog with its fore.paws, while ils U|> tlie belly with its hind-foot.—Eo.? It appears rather that the atiimala of thia genus are icarious, but collect accidentally at s and I They lodge RODENTIA. 107 would therefore be neeessary to rank among the Rodenlia. We should even have placed it there,had wc not been gradually led to it by an uninterrupted series from the Opossums to the Phalan-gers, thence to the Kangaroos, and from the Kangaroos to the Wombat.* Their reproductive organsare entirely similar to those of other Marmipiata. They are sluggish aninials, with large flat beads, and l)odi(s that appear as if crushed. Tlioy arcwithout a tail; have five nails on each of tlic fore-feet, and four, with a small
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