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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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level country, and is not esteemed as food. Thisanimal is figured in Grifliths edition of the present \York under the name of Diana Marmot. The others are mountain animals, which frequent rocky places near the snow-line.The Chinchas {Logolis, Ben.; Legidium, Meyer)—Scarcely diifer from the Viscacha except in having four toes to each foot, and a long bristly tail, as inthe Chinchilla. Two species are known; the first with long Rabbit-like ears, and greyish fur, from the Peruvian Andes(//. Cuvieriy Ben.; Legid. peruvianmn, Mey.); the other from the Chilian Andes, with shorter ears, and fur inchiiingto reddish-brown (X. paUipes, Ben.). Lastly, The Chinchilla {Cliinchilla, Ben.; Eriomys, Vander Hoeven; Callomys, Gray),—lias a fourth very small internal toe on the hind-foot: ears ample; the internal auditory bullaeremarkably capacious, appearing on the upper part of the skull. Each of the upper molars hasthree alternate layers of enamel and ivory, the inferior only two. RODJiNTIA. 121
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One species only is well determined, r.ie Chin-chilla of the furriers (CA. lanigera, Ben.), cele-brated for the delicate fineness of its fur. Itinhabits the Chilian and Peruvian Andes. Somewhat allied to the foregoing, is an-otlicr small group of South .American rodents,with also four rootless molars of equal sizeP^_ aliDve and below, except in one instanceJI== (.•/irocomal, where the inferior resemblethoser – J ^:ii^>!:^^^ – ~~ of an .-Inicola; they are surrounded with ^^ enamel, and doubled, or indented deeply, on both sides. The antorbital foramen is veryFic. <8.-Tii« chinciiiiu. l^rge. There are five toes to each foot, ex- cept in Abrocoma, w hi^li li: s only four anteriorly; and the general aspect is intermediate to that of theChiuchillas and Rats or Voles: the head, however, is arched. Four subdivisions have been distiu-guislied. In The Abrocomes {Abrocoma, Waterh.),— The cars are large, the claws very small, and the tail rather long and not tufted. The excessivefinen
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