The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . d, leavingonly a triangular space, the point of which isabove. It is a very large and ferociousanimal, which inhabits the woods of Caffraria.[There are other African Buffaloes of inferior size,a female of one of which (C brachticeros. Gray),or the Sliort-horned Buffalo, with very largeears and well-proportioned limbs, is now living inLondon.] Lastly, The Musk Ox {Bos moschaius, Gm. [Ovlhos mos-chatus, Blainv.]).—Horns approximated and di-rected as
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . d, leavingonly a triangular space, the point of which isabove. It is a very large and ferociousanimal, which inhabits the woods of Caffraria.[There are other African Buffaloes of inferior size,a female of one of which (C brachticeros. Gray),or the Sliort-horned Buffalo, with very largeears and well-proportioned limbs, is now living inLondon.] Lastly, The Musk Ox {Bos moschaius, Gm. [Ovlhos mos-chatus, Blainv.]).—Horns approximated and di-rected as in the Cape Buffalo, but meeting on theforehead by a straight line: those of the femalesmaller and separated. The forehead convex, andextremity of the muzzle hairy. It stands low, andis covered with long hair, that reaches the extremely short. It diffuses more stronglythe musky odour common to the whole genus,[and which is also particularly noticeable in theEuropean Bison]. Inhabits the coldest regionsof North America, where alone it has been seen,though its skull and bones are sometimes carriedby the ice to Fig. 65.—Cape Buffalo. THE NINTH ORDER OF MAMMALIANS,— CETACEA,— Consists of animals without Lind-limbs : the trunk being continued by a tliick tail, which terminates in a horizontal cartilaginous fin, while the head is connected to the body by so short and thick a neck, that no diminution of its cu-cuniference is perceptible: tliis neck consists of very slender cervical vertebra;, that are partly anchylosed or soldered together. Tlie first bones of their anterior extremities are shortened, and the succeeding ones flattened and enveloped in a tendinous membrane, which reduces them to the condition of true fins. Hence the external form is absolutely that of fishes, except that the latter have the tail-fin vertical. They always therefore remain in the Water; but as they breathe by lungs, they are compelled to return frequently to the surface to t
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