. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 82 Div. 1. VEETEBEATE ANBIALS.—MAMMALIA. Class 1, We know but of one (Cr. ohscurus, F. Cuv.), from Sierra i^eone : size of a Snrikate. [Other Mangoustes are included by recent systematists ; and it may be remarked that both tliis and the preceding subdivision are merely slight modifications of Ilerpestes, and have similar perfect orbits.] We shall here mention a singular animal from South Africa, which is known only when young, and which has five to
. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 82 Div. 1. VEETEBEATE ANBIALS.—MAMMALIA. Class 1, We know but of one (Cr. ohscurus, F. Cuv.), from Sierra i^eone : size of a Snrikate. [Other Mangoustes are included by recent systematists ; and it may be remarked that both tliis and the preceding subdivision are merely slight modifications of Ilerpestes, and have similar perfect orbits.] We shall here mention a singular animal from South Africa, which is known only when young, and which has five toes before, four behind, and the head a little elongated as in the Civets, the legs raised, those behind rather shorter, and a mane as in the Hy^na; and which also resembles the Striped Hyaena very remarkably iu its colouring. Its anterior thumb is short, and placed high up. The Proteles Lalandi, : an inhabitant of caverns. The individuals examined, which were all young, possessed but three small false molars, and one small tuberculous back molar. It seems as though their teeth had never come to perfection, as often happens in the Gfenets. (See my Ossemens fossUes, iv. 388.) [The per- manent canines are of tolerable size, but the simple form of the molars, all very small, and separated by intervals, presents an anomaly an>ong the Carnivora, which is even more re- markable on account of the affinity of this spe- cies to the Hyaenas. It is destructive to very young lambs, and is stated to attack the mas- sive fatty protuberance on the tails of the African Sheep.}. Fig. 32.—Proteles LaUudi. The last subilivisiou of the Digitigrafles has no small teeth whatever behind the large molar of the lower jaw. It contains the most sanguinary and carnivorous of the class. There are two genera. The Hyenas {Hycma, Storr)— Have three false molars above and four below, all conical, blunt, and singularly large: their npper car- nivorous tooth has a small tubercle within and in fro
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