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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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001 of the M.im.%g. and wliicb Gcoifroy has engraved {Ann. Mus. xix. 10), under the name of Cheirogale.s {Clteiroyakm).These figures seem to announce a new genus or subgenus of Quadmmuna. [Three species are re-presented in Commersons drawing, all of which appear to be now authenticated by specimens. Theirproportions are those of the Galagos; dentition as in the Malmags, except that they retain all theirinferior incisors ; the head is round, the nose and muzzle short, lips furnished with whiskers, the eyeslarge and approximate, and the ears short and oval; the nails of the foiu- extremities are compressedand somewhat claw-Uke, and the tail is long, bushy, and regidarly cylindrical. Three or more species are known, all from the great island of M.idagascar. They constitute the divisionLichanos of Gray. The singular genus Cheiromys, also, from the same peeuUar locality, which is ananged by theauthor among the Rodentia, would appear to have much better claim to be introduced here, and near
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66 MAMMALIA. to the Galagos. Likewise, Galcpopithecus, which Cuvier has placed after the Bats, but whieh isLemurine in all the esseutial details of its conformation.*] THE THIRD ORDER OF MAMMALIANS, CARNARIAf,— Consists of an immense and varied assemblage of unguiculated quadrupeds, which pos-sess, in common with Man and the Quadrmnana, the three sorts of teeth, but have noopposable thumb to the fore-feet. J They all subsist on animal food, [some Bats ex-cepted,] and the more exclusively so, as their grinders are more cutting. Such ashave them wholly or in part tuberculous, take more or less vegetable nourishment, andthose in which they arc studded with conical points live principally upon insects. Thearticulation of their lower jaw, directed crosswise, and clasping Kke a hinge, allows ofno lateral motion, but can only open and shut: [the latter, however, had already beennearly lost in the Lemurs.] llieir brain, though still tolerably convoluted, has no third lobe, and docs not cove
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