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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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ead, leavingonly a triangular space, the point of which isabove. It is a very large and extremely ferociousanimal, which inhabits the woods of Caffraria.[There are other African Bulfaloes of inferior size,a female of one of which (7J. hrachycerost Gray),or the Short-horned Buffalo, with very largeears and well-proportioned limbs, is now living inLondon.] Lastly, The Musk Ox {Bos mosckatus, Gm. lOvibos mos-chatus, Blaiuv.]).—Horns approximated and di-rected as in the Cape Buffalo, but meeting on theforehead by a straight line: those of the femalesmaller and separated. The forehead convex, andextremity of the muzzle hairy. It stands low, andis covered with longhair, that reaches the ground.Tail extremely short. It diffuses more stronglythe musky odour common to the whole genus,[and which is also particularly noticeable in theEuropean Bison]. Inhabits the coldest regionsof North America, where alone it has been seen,though its skull and bones are sometimes carriedby the ice to Siberia.
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Fig &i —Cb} e Buffalo THE NINTH ORDER OF MAMMALIANS, CETACEA,— Consists of animals without Lind-limbs : tlie trunk being continued by a tliick tail, which terminates in a horizontal cartilaginous fin, while tlie head is connected to the body by so short and thick a neck, that no diminution of its circumference is perceptible: this neck consists of very slender cervical vertebrse, that are partly anehylosed or soldered together. Tlie first bones of their anterior extremities are shortened, and the succeeding ones flattened and enveloped in a tenthnous membrane, which reduces them to the condition of true fins. Hence the external form is absolutely that of fishes, except that the latter have the tail-fin -^ vertical. They always therefore remain in the water; but as they breathe by lungs, they are compelled to return frequently to the surface to take in fresh supplies of air.* Their warm blood; very small orifices; their viviparous generation, mammae by which they suckle their y
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