1. What is meant by the animal kingdom? Give the scientific name. 2. To whom are we indebted for the first classification of the animal kingdom, and what is the classification?

3. Describe a vertebrata.

4. How is the highest order of the vertebrata (Mammalia) distinguished? 5. How is the highest order of mammalia (Bimana) distinguished? 6. Why does man stand at the head of all living creatures?

7. Why is man said to be an accountable being?

8. What do we mean by instinct, and what is its use to "lower animals?" 9. What are the peculiarities of the four-handed animals (Quadrumana)? 10. What pecularity belongs to the flesh eating animals, or Carnivora? 11. Name some animals (Digitigrada) that walk on their toes.

12. What are some peculiarities of the cat family, or Felida?

13. Why is the tongue of the Felidae rough, and of what use are the whiskers? 14. Name one of the most ferocious, malignant, and greedy of animals. 15. What can you say of the Lion, or Felis Leo?

16. Which is the only animal that has followed man through every region of the earth? (Cuvier.)

[its prey? 17. What animal is most closely allied to the dog, and how does it hunt 18. Describe the ermine and where it abounds.

19. How many specimens of the elephant (Proboscidae) now exist? 20. Describe a sea cow, to what family does it belong?

21. From what part of the whale is whalebone derived?

22. Where are spermaceti and ambegris obtained?

23. What are flying mammals, and how many varieties are there?

24. Describe the appearance of animals living on insects, or Insectivora.

25. What are the two lowest orders of mammalia called?

26. Name the principal classes of birds, or Avis.

27. How may we compare the flight of a bird with that of a ship ~ 28. What bird in flight outstrips the wind?

29. What bird traverses three elements with ease?

30. How powerful is the stroke of a swan's and of an eagle's wing?

31. Of what use to birds is the bone we call the "wish-bone?"

32. Which three of the senses are the most acute in birds?

33. Which birds see the farthest, which the keenest sense of hearing, and which the quickest in flight?

34. How many eyelids have birds?

35. What is the nature of reptiles (Reptilia), and how is the order classified? 36. On which sense do reptiles depend for knowledge of enemies, and aid

in procuring food?

37. What is peculiar in the hearing apparatus of crocodiles?

38. About how many species of reptiles are there?

39. What is the food of the tortoise?

40. Is there such a creature as the dragon now in existence? 41. How is the serpent enabled to travel over the ground? 42. Is it correct to say "the sting of the serpent," and why? 43. How many rows of teeth have serpents?

44. Describe the tongue of the serpent.

The fangs.

45. How long is the boa constrictor, and how distinguished from the

anaconda ?

46. What class of animals have a double life?

47. How high can the frog of the West Indies and South America leap?

48. How do tree frogs (Hylada) resemble the common fly?

49. What remarkable phenomena is exhibited by the Surinam toad?

50. What animals are lowest in the order of vertebrates?

51. What are regarded as the lowest forms of animal life?

52. What kind of animals are the mollusca ?

53. Which of the jointed animals (Articulata) belongs to the water?

54. Do insects belong to the class of Articulata?

55. What is the most striking peculiarity regarding insects?

56. What is remarkable about the eyes of insects?

57. Which is the most interesting insect to study next to the bee?

58. What kind of ants are called the "drivers?"

59. Where do bumble-bees construct their cells?

60. What constitutes the kingdom of the common hive-bee?

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ZOOLOGY;

OR THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.

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1. All living creatures, from the most minute to the most highly organized-usually designated as Zoology.

2. To Cuvier, a French naturalist. It is divided into four sub-kingdoms: Vertebrata, or back-boned animals; Articulata, or jointed animals; Molusca, or pulpy animals; Radiata, or rayed animals.

3. It has a framework or skeleton of bone; a nervous system, consisting of brain, spinal cord, and nerves; red blood; two cavities, one containing the spinal cord, the other the organs of digestion and respiration; not more than two pairs of limbs, and is the most highly organized animal. 4. They suckle their young.

5. It is represented by only one species—man.

6. Not owing to his size or strength, but in the model after which he is constructed; his frame possessing the most perfect adjustment of parts. 7. Because, being able to distinguish right from wrong, he is accountable to God for his actions.

8. It is an internal impulse, incapable of improvement; the bird builds its nest, the bee constructs its cells, but nests and cells at first are made in the same way and as skillfully as ever subsequently.

9. The great toe is opposable to the others. They do not assume the erect posture from habit; arms are long, and canine teeth prominent; divided into old world, new world and Madagascar monkeys.

10. They are the most ferocious of the wild animals.

11. The domestic and wild cat, lion, tiger, leopard and lynx. They are light and active, have beautiful fur and elegant forms. Most of them sleep by day, and hunt their prey by night.

12. Their jaws, teeth and shoulders are powerfully strong; the fore feet have five toes and the hind ones four, armed with strong, hooked and sharp claws, which are elevated above the ground by the soft pad underneath, which preserves them from becoming worn or blunted.

13. The roughness enables them to lap up liquids, and aids in tearing flesh adhering to the bones of their prey. The whiskers are each furnished with a large nerve, and are regarded by some as delicate organs of smell, and by others as indicating the presence of objects on either side, or the size of holes through which they may wish to pass.

14. The Hyena feeds on dead flesh, even tearing bodies from their tombs; deceives pursuers at times by feigning lameness in the chase.

15. The Lion is the strongest and most courageous of the felida tribe; lives sometimes to great age; Pompey, in the Tower of London, lived there 70 years.

16. The dog; though Jews, Mohammedans, and Hindoos regard him as impure, and will not touch him without ablution.

17. The wolf, though larger and more muscular. An implacable hatred exists between the two. Wolves evince great craft in pursuit of prey, and generally hunt in packs; they form a semicircle and advance upon the animal, forcing it over a precipice, or closing it within a circle. 18. It is about the size of a cat; in summer of a yellowish brown, and then called Stote; becomes pure white in winter, when it is known as Ermine. Abound in Northern America, Europe and Asia; frequents stony places, and in a short race will outstrip a dog. Its tail is always black.

19. Two species, the Elephas Indicus and the Elephas Africanus. Cuvier mentions a tusk weighing 350 lbs. One in British Museum measures ten feet in length; Hansfels describes one as measuring over fourteen feet in length. Elephants live to the age of 400 years.

20. Its body is from 10 to 20 feet long, skin blackish, tough, full of inequalities, and thinly sprinkled with bristly hairs; short nails on flippers; lives in societies, and strongly attached to one another; defending young at cost of life. Belongs to order of Sea Mammals.

21. It hangs from the upper jaw, as a fringe of horn-like material of some ten feet in length, and used to strain out the water from the minute animalcula on which it feeds.

22. An immense cavity in the head of the sperm whale contains an oil which hardens and forms the spermaceti of commerce. From the intestines of the sperm whale is procured ambergris, used in making perfumery.

23. They are known as bats; there are two hundred species, of which the flying fox (Pteropus edulis) of Java is the largest, its body the size of a squirrel, and five feet across the wings.