. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. CARNARIA. 97 domestic, named P. Temminckii: F. planiceps approximates the last, but is smaller, with some markings on the head, and is remarkable for its complete bany orbits.] We might place as a separate subgenus [Cy- nni/nriix, Blainv. ?] a species which lias the head rounder a:n! Bhorter, and the talons of which an | not retractile [a statement which is unwar J ranted by fact], the Chetah, or Hunting I pard (/?'. juhata, Schreb.): size of a Leopa
. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. CARNARIA. 97 domestic, named P. Temminckii: F. planiceps approximates the last, but is smaller, with some markings on the head, and is remarkable for its complete bany orbits.] We might place as a separate subgenus [Cy- nni/nriix, Blainv. ?] a species which lias the head rounder a:n! Bhorter, and the talons of which an | not retractile [a statement which is unwar J ranted by fact], the Chetah, or Hunting I pard (/?'. juhata, Schreb.): size of a Leopard, but longer-bodied, and stands higher; of a pah fulvous, with tolerably uniform small black spots, a black streak reaching from the eye to the angll of the mouth, and tail annulated at the end. The disposition of this animal is mild and docile. [From Asia and Africa, but apparently not specifically the same on the two The Digitigrada of Cuvier, exclu rive of the semi-plantigrade genera which 5 have no caecum, divide primarily into. | first, the Canine group, or the Dogs and 5 Foxes, which is the most distinctly se- % parated by anatomical characters; the remainder are all much more nearly al- lied, but we may venture to detach the Feline animals or Cats: the rest may all be included in the Viverrine section, to which the Hyaenas strictly appertain; a varied, but quite natural assemblage, ex- clusively confined in its distribution to the eastern continent, and scarcely extending bevond the tropics; whereas the former groups are generally diffused, with the exception of Aus- tralia and the remote oceanic islands. Of the Viver/ine animals, the most definitely cha- racterized subdivision is that of the Mangoustes and subordinate sections: the Genets scarcely differ from the Cats except in the prolongation of the muzzle; and the Hyaena group is so nearly related to the Civets that it does not appear to be separable on physiological characters.] The Amphibia [Pinnigra
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