The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . The coromon Dog is an eatfer dcvourcrof gooseberries, t?ill soon blrip the bushes to which it has access.— is reniRrkabIc that inniiv of the haiiits riogfitter tti;i to MAMMALIA. is Dog bke, but certainly not a Cams: its form ana colouring (and there is reason to suspect its internalconformation), are rather those of a Hysna; and it is known to copulate in the manner of those animals, andnot in the peculiar manner of the Dogs and Foxes. Even
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . The coromon Dog is an eatfer dcvourcrof gooseberries, t?ill soon blrip the bushes to which it has access.— is reniRrkabIc that inniiv of the haiiits riogfitter tti;i to MAMMALIA. is Dog bke, but certainly not a Cams: its form ana colouring (and there is reason to suspect its internalconformation), are rather those of a Hysna; and it is known to copulate in the manner of those animals, andnot in the peculiar manner of the Dogs and Foxes. Even its dentition is the same as that elsewhere found,(with one other exception,—Pro/c/e*,) throughout the group to which we conceive the Hyaenas to belong, thedental system of which latter appears to be modified in accordance with their much increased and prodigiousstrength of jaw.] The Civets (Viverra),—Have three false molars above and four below, the anterior of which sometimes fall out; two tolerablylarge tuberculous teeth above, one only below, and two tubercles projecting forwards on the inner sideof the lower carnivorous tooth, the rest of that tooth being tuberculous. The tongue is covered withsharp and rough papillaj. Their claws are more or less raised as they walk; and near the anu
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