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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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of the forehead, there is an eminence or third horn, broader and much shorter, but equally articulatedby suture. Tliis animal is in other respects one of the most remarkable that exist, on account of thegreat length of its neck and the disproportionate extension of its fore-legs.* Only one species is known (C. giraffa, Liu.), confined to the deserts of Africa, which has short hair, markedwith angular fulvous spots on a greyish ground, and a slight mane on the hind-neck. It is the tallest of allanimals, its head being frequently raised eighteen feet from the ground. Its disposition is gentle, and it feeds onleaves. The Ruminants with hollow horns—Are more mimeroiis than the others, and we have been necessitated to divide them intogenera upon characters of trivial import, derived fi-om the form of the horns, and the propor-tions of the various parts. To these M. Geoffroy has advantageously added those afforded bythe substance of the frontal prominence, or the bouy nucleus of the horn.
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