Bingley's Natural History: Exhibiting, in a Series of Delightful Anecdotes and Descriptions, the Characteristic Habits and Modes of Life of the Various Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Mollusca, and Animalculae of the Globe (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Bingley's Natural History: Exhibiting, in a Series of Delightful Anecdotes and Descriptions, the Characteristic Habits and Modes of Life of the Various Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Mollusca, and Animalculæ of the Globe

The principal Linnean characteristics of this tribe are four front teeth in the upper jaw, the intermediate ones remote: six long, compressed, parallel teeth in the under jaw; the canine teeth solitary; and the grinders somewhat lobated.

The animals have one sharp claw on each hind foot; all their other nails are flat.

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