Section 148. the Rabbit Shares With All Mammals, and Differs From All

other vertebrata (i.e., birds, reptiles, amphibia, and fishes), in having--

(a) Hair.

(b) A diaphragm.

(c) Only one aortic arch, and that on the left side of the body.

(d) Its young born alive. (But two very reptile-like mammals of Australia, the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, lay eggs, and certain fish and reptiles bear living young.)

(e) Epiphyses to its vertebral -centre- [centra].*

(f) The cerebral hemispheres covering the mid-brain.

(g) Corpora quadrigemina instead of bigemina.

* But certain mammals have no such epiphyses.