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Title: Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom

Author: Samuel Griswold Goodrich

Release Date: September 9, 2010 [EBook #33687]

Language: English

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[Illustration: ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.--LONDON.]

ANECDOTES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.

BOSTON:
C. H. PEIRCE AND G. C. RAND.

ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM:

BY THE AUTHOR OF PETER PARLEY'S TALES.

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY RAND AND MANN,
No. 3 Cornhill.
1849.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845,

By S. G. GOODRICH,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

PRESS OF GEORGE C. RAND & CO.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

GENERAL CLASSIFICATION, 9

VERTEBRATA, 10

CLASS MAMMALIA, 10

ORDER I.--BIMANA, 11
Man, 11

ORDER II.--QUADRUMANA, 13
Apes, 14
Orang-Outang, 14
Chimpanse, 22
Gibbon, 23
Baboon, 25
Monkeys, 38

ORDER III.--CARNARIA, 45
Bats, 45
Hedgehog, 47
Mole,