Zoological text-book comprising Cuvier's four grand divisions of animals : also, Shaw's improved Linnean genera, arranged according to the classes and orders of Cuvier and Latreille : short descriptions of some of the most common species are given for student's exercises

Abstract

CuLTRATE, a beak resembling a pruiiing-knife or coulter. Wattles, fleshy appendages under the chin. JVlissiLE-TONGue, which may be thrust far out of the moulh. jyicTiTANT-MEMBRANE, a semi-trauspareut eyc-Ud. ExsERT, teeth, &c. projecting out. Incisors, front, or cutting teeth. CusPiDATEs, canine teeth, next to Incisors. MoLARRs, grinders, the teeth farthest back in the mouth. ViBRissAE, smellers, hair of the nostrils. Protrusile, when the head may be thrust out. Retractile, when the head may be drawn in. Effuse, with a pouring outlet, like a pitcher nose in the niouth of some shells, as cyj)j'ea. Byssus, silky fibres at the hinge or head of some shells. Beard, tendril-form appendage to mouths of fish. Gill-covers, the bony or cartilagcnous substance placed on the gill-membrane. Gill-membrane, the membrane coveiing the gills. Bronchial, pertaining to the gills. Stemmata, small lucid globules resembling eyes, on the top of the head ; generally three in number. II. RELATING TO THE NECK. Scrag, back of a bird's neck. Indistinct, when the head and breast grow in one piece. III. RELATING TO THE THORAX OR BREAST. Ventricles, the larger cavities of the heart. Auricles, the smaller cavities, above the larger, and resembling ears in appearance. ELEMENTARY TERMS. 31 LateraIi-line, the sideline of many fish, dividing the back from the belly. Dorsal, lelatin.^to the back. Dorsal FINS, auy back-fin between the head and tail-fin. Pectoral FIN'S, a pair growing on each si<le the bieat. PoisERs or Halters, globules on slender stems under the wings of some two-winged insects. ScuTEL, or EscuTCHEOJT, a piece between the bases of the upj)er winji^s. on the backs of insects. Hyaline Scutel, &c. glass-like. IV. RELATING TO THE ABDOMEN OR BELLY. Nayant, floating in water. Turbinate, shaped like a top. Phosphorescent, emitting light in the dark. Abdominal, relating to the belly. Abdominal-rings, annulas, or ring-form segments of the belly of inserts ; geneially 5. Cloaca, a general vent, where eggs, urine and foeces are evacuated. Vent, the aperture in fish where foeces, &c. are discharged. Anal-fins, one or more between the vent and caudal fins. Abdominal-fins, any where under the fish, between the head and vent. y. RELATLNG TO FORE LEGS AND WINGS; AuLUiET, (spurious ANiiJg,) a tuft of 3 or 5 feathers on the outer fore joint of a bird's wing. Tectrics, (wing coverts,) the longest feathers in a wing, next above the quills. Minor-tectrics, (lesser wing-coverts,) the wing-feathers above the tec tries.