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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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our incisors to eachjaw: [also generally less than the smaller species ofthe preceding. At least six are known, one of which(Uily {Pt. aviplexlcaudatiis), has the tail moderately con-spicuous : the muzzle is comparatively somewhat shorter.These two divisions comprehend all that are nowranged in Pieropus; and one species only (P^ macru-cephalusy Ogilby), from the Gambia, presents any markedFij!. ?.-Htati .if i^.fropus cdiiiis. departure from the general character, in the great size of its head, the superior magnitude and solidity of itscanines, and separation of the molars: allied to it is Pt. gamhianm,Og\hy,iYQm the same locality, and Pt.WhUei, Ben., which has a singular tuft on each side of the neck. The name Epomophorus, Ben., is applied tothese three species by Gray.] 3. According to the indicia of M. Geoffroy, we now separate from the Roussettes The Cephalots {CephaloteSy Geof.),—Which have [nearly] similar grinders, but in which the index finger, short, and consisting of three
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PcHiaps ihe frupivorous slets are riaUcd at liirth, but Iiigiiig ti. Uitir piireiu. Bats of Europe,—Eu. CARNARIA. C9 phalanges, like that of the preceding, h.as no nail. The memhranes of their wings, instead of meetingat the flank, are joined to each other at the middle of the back, to which they adhere hy a vertical andlongitudinal partition [a character which occurs, how ever, more or less comi)letely, that is, the volarmembrane is attached more or less near to the middle of the hack, in some of the Uoussettes].Thev have often only two incisors [when adult, which are inserted in small curved intermaxillaries,that are moveable backwards and forwards]. M. Isidore Geoffroy, in a monograph of this genus [Pteropiut], forms tlic I/, jjersonatus, Tem.,and some allied species, into the subgenus Pachymma, which has four molars less than the others, andthe zvomatic arches more projecting: the Pf. minimus or ros/ralus composes his subgenus Maero-glusmts, the muzzle of which is longer and mor
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