I suspect if we could find them all they would make the classification of the Mammalia into a horrid mess.
Thinking of my course of twenty-four lectures on the Mammalia at the College of Surgeons in next spring, and making investigations bearing on the same.
Goodrich, "On the Fossil Mammaliafrom the Stonesfield Slate," Quart.
This is the more valuable in a country where the thick-skinned and leather-yielding mammalia are almost unknown.
No one who has turned over the pages of a picture-book of mammalia will be likely to forget the odd-looking animal known as the tapir.
This animal was one of the first of those great post-tertiary mammalia to become extinct.
In the Rabbit and probably other Monodelphous Mammalia the segmentation is nearly though not quite regular.
In Amphioxus and Petromyzon there is however but a single nucleolus, and in Mammalia there is usually one special nucleolus and two or three accessory ones.
The development of the ovary in Mammaliadiffers mainly from that just described in that the formation of primitive germinal cells from the indifferent cells of the germinal epithelium takes place at a relatively much later period.
Mammalia were represented by the bear already mentioned, and by the reindeer and the lemming, whose traces and dung were seen on the plains.
In order to present a true picture of the Polar traveller's surroundings and mode of life, it is absolutely necessary to give a sketch of the occurrence and mode of life of the wild mammalia in the Polar lands.
In the cultivated regions of Europe the larger mammalia are so rare that most men in their whole lifetime have never seen a wild mammal so large as a dog.
Hardly any group of Mammalia is more exclusively tropical than the Quadrumana, yet, if other conditions are favourable, some of them can withstand a considerable degree of cold.
Though among mammalia -- as also in the case of the birds -- there are but few forms peculiar to the Alps, many interesting animals have found in the high mountains at least a temporary refuge from man.
The seventh volume contains the history of the process of development in mammalia and man, by Th.
It results, moreover, from the vital and mysterious operations which are constantly taking place in organic beings, and especially in the classes of mammalia and birds.
The only wild mammalia in the island are the hedgehogs, two species of weasel, the Norway rat, and the domestic mouse.
A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata (1837).
Three species of mastodon and the gigantic megatherium were the only extinct mammalia known from South America previous to Darwin's voyage.
An extinct group of Mammalia found fossil in the Eocene formation.
With the exception of the Mammalia and the Birds, the fauna of Ceylon has, up to the present, failed to receive that systematic attention to which its richness and variety so amply entitle it.
Footnote 3: Some of themammalia peculiar to the island are enumerated at p.
Hart Merriam and his collectors have reduced the trapping of the very small mammalia to an exact science, the like of which I venture to say has never been seen before.
Sportsmen, if you really must kill all the large mammalia from off the face of the earth, do at least preserve the heads that are brought low by your skill and prowess.
But not only in man, in the other mammalia to which allusion is made, it is never the entire animal which passes through these transformations.
If the embryo of one of the mammalia pass through the foetal stages of the fish and the bird, the embryo fish bears the same transitory resemblance to the foetal condition of the bird or the mammal.
This is all that we need ask to account for the very scanty and fragmentary group of Mammalia which now inhabit the large island of Timor.
The other great Mammalia of Sumatra, the elephant and the rhinoceros, are more widely distributed; but the former is much more scarce than it was a few years ago, and seems to retire rapidly before the spread of cultivation.
The Mammalia of Timor as well as those of the other islands of the group are exceedingly scanty, with the exception of bats.
The number of Mammalia known to inhabit the Indo-Malay region is very considerable, exceeding 170 species.
The Mammalia of Celebes are very few in number, consisting of fourteen terrestrial species and seven bats.
The islands have perhaps no truly indigenous Mammalia but bats.
The Aru Islands, Mysol, and Waigiou, as well as Jobie, agree with New Guinea in their species of mammalia and birds much more closely than they do with the Moluccas, and we find that they are all united to New Guinea by a shallow sea.
In the Mammalia the teeth, though restricted in number, attain the greatest possible variety of form, so that the jaws of different but allied species may be distinguished by their teeth.
Owen, "Monograph of the Fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic Formation," Pal.
The above is the arrangement of the auditory ossicles met with in the higher Mammalia, but in the lower Mammalia the characters approach more nearly to those met with in Sauropsids.
This great group includes all the Mammaliaexcept the orders Monotremata and Marsupialia.
As in Mammalia there are two occipital condyles formed by the exoccipitals.
The most reduced manus in the whole of the mammalia is found in the Horse and its allies, in which the third digit, terminated by a very wide ungual phalanx, is the only one functional.
In the young Ornithorhynchus[146] functional molar teeth of a multi-tubercular type resembling those of some Mesozoic mammalia are present, but in the adult they disappear, their office being discharged by horny plates.
In almost all Mammalia it is, as compared with that in Sauropsids, very incomplete; and in the dog it is even more reduced than in the majority of Mammalia.
When palatine or pterygoid bones are present they are formed by the ossification of cartilage; in Sauropsida andMammalia they are laid down as membrane bones.
Some naturalists have supposed that the presence of the tropical Mammalia in the Northern Temperate Zone might be otherwise accounted for,--that they might have been endowed with warmer covering, with thicker hair or fur.
One word more as to the relation of the Tertiary Mammalia to the creation which preceded them.
This statement aroused research in every direction, and the number of fossil Mammalia found within the next few years, and proved by comparison to be different from any living species, soon demonstrated the truth of his conclusion.
The announcement of Cuvier's results stimulated research, and from this time forward Tertiary Mammalia became the subject of extensive and most important investigations among naturalists.
Illustration] The first Mammalia in the world were pouched animals, having that extraordinary attachment to the mother after birth which characterizes the Kangaroo.
The fact of the blood of mammalia being poisonous to birds is very remarkable; it cannot be explained mechanically.
In Dieffenbach's experiments, pigeons were killed by a few drops only of the blood of mammalia, and the blood of fishes, it is asserted, is as fatal to mammalia as to birds.
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