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1 He is incorrect in speaking of dogs as having serrated teeth.
2 In the dugong also, babiroussa, muntjac, and others.
3 The morse and the dugong are instances to the contrary.
4 The females of the elephant, morse; dugong, chevrotin, and muntjac have them, and they are equally as useful as with the male, only, perhaps, not so strong.
5 This is incorrect, unless he merely means ranged in one continuous line; and even then he is in error.
6 See B. ix. c. 29. This is called the parrot-fish, from the resemblance of its upper and lower jaws to the beak of a parrot.
7 They present this appearance from being worn away at the surface.
8 Rondelet would read "gula," the throat. This, though repudiated by Hardouin, is approved of by Cuvier, who justly looks upon the ordinary reading as an absurdity. Many fish, he says, and more especially the osseous ones, have teeth in the pharynx.
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