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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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he number of their toes is accordingly inverse to that of the ordinary Rats. Theirinferior incisors are truncated, and not pointed as in the Jerboas, and as in the majority of otheranimals wliich have been comprised in the great genus of Rats. One species only is known, as large as a Rabbit,and pale fulvous, with a long tufted tail black at thetiXUMutcaffer, Pallas ; B;;)n.5cn#fr, Gm.)—It inha-bits deep burrows near the Cape of Good Hope.(Tlie afiinities of this curious animal are by nomeans obvious.] The Mole-r.\ts {Spala.r, Guldenste.it)—Have also been very properly separated fromthe genus of Rats, although their grinders arethree in number, and tuberculaled as in theRats properly so called, and also the Hamsters,and are merely a little less unequal; their in-cisors being too large to be covered by the lips, and the extremities of those of the lower jaw • The Plovrrs, mnil *,- rral oltirr bir-ls belongin,; to ihf same groap, prfKcnt n aomcivUnt nnnlognns coitformHlioi,.— Fn.
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11G MAMMALIA. trenchant, rectilinear, and not pointed: their limbs are very short; all their feet have five short loes,with flat and slender nails; their tail is short or wanting, and there is no external ear- They liveunder ground like the Moles, throw up the earth in the same manner, although prorided with veryinferior instruments for the purpose, and subsist entirely on roots. Tlie Blind Mole-rat, Zemny, or Stepitz {Mks typMus, Pallas.)—A singular animal, which, from its large head,an^ular at the sides, its short legs, the total absence of a tail or of any apparent eye, has a most shapeless appear-ance. Tlie eye is not visible externally, and ne merely find beneath the skin a small black globule, which appearsto be organized like an eye, but which cannot sei-ve for the purpose of vision, since the skin passes over it withoutopening, or even becoming thinner, and being as much covered with hair as on any other part. It exceeds our Ratin size, and has smooth ash-coloured fur, vergi
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