. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . nimal; its eyes aresmall and black; its ears short and pointed. The paws are something likea beavers, with which it runs so awkwardly that a man could easily over-take it. Its posteriors differ from most other animals, by falling down in asloping direction, commencing at the hip joint, and descending to the kneejoint of the hind legs; its tail is so short that it is scarcely general color is a cream brown, intermixed with black hairs. Thefemale,
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . nimal; its eyes aresmall and black; its ears short and pointed. The paws are something likea beavers, with which it runs so awkwardly that a man could easily over-take it. Its posteriors differ from most other animals, by falling down in asloping direction, commencing at the hip joint, and descending to the kneejoint of the hind legs; its tail is so short that it is scarcely general color is a cream brown, intermixed with black hairs. Thefemale, like most other animals of New South Wales, is distinguished by apouch or false belly for its young. The flesh is considered by the nativesas a great luxury. ORDER SIX —GLIRES. Animals of this order have two large incisors in each jaw, separatedfrom the molars by a vacant space; no canine teeth; molars with flatcrowns, or blunt tubercles; extremities, the posterior longest, terminated byunguiculated toes, the number varying according to the species; mammaevariable in number; stomach simple ; intestines very long. THE The beaver seems to be now the only remaining monument of that kindol intelligence in brutes, Avhich, though infinitely inferior, as to its princi- 1 Castor fiber, Lin. The genus Castor has two upper and two lower incisors ; eight upperand eight lower molars. Molars composed ofa flat crown, with sinuous and complicatedridges of enamel; live toes on each foot, the anterior short and close, the posterior longerand palmated ; tail broad, thick, flattened horizontally, of an oval form, naked and cover-id with scales. 224 MAMMALIA—BEAVER. pie, to that of man, supposes, however, certain common projects, certainrelative ends in view, projects which, having for their basis society, in likemanner suppose some particular method of understanding one another, andof acting in concert. It is allowed, that the beaver, far from having an absolute superiority overthe
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