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tually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts. Milton.

A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.

A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

ryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals.

the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.

A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.

A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadæ, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadruma…

Mammals which have no placenta.

An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.

(Zoöl.), three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mam malia; the alula.

One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. Bat tick (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.…

A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).

Having two auricles, as the heart of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.

The condition of having two mammæ or teats.

A small fish (Amblyopsis spelæus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

hter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament." Milton.

A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.

Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.