Excerpt from Mammalia: Their Various Forms and Habits: Popularly Illustrated by Typical Species
The majority of the Mammalia are covered with hair. Some, however, have smooth skins: as, for instance, the Whale and Porpoise; others, as the Pangolins (manis), are clad with dermal scales, which are altogether unlike those of Reptiles or Fishes.
The size of the Mammalia varies extremely the scale extend ing from the Whale and the Elephant to the Mouse, and to the most diminutive of Shrews, which are considerably less than half the size of the very smallest of the Mouse genus.
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