ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT
This animal is really not a goat, but is more nearly related to the antelopes. Range: The higher mountains from Alaska south to California. Group in American Museum of Natural History.
Animals may be separated into two great groups, those without backbones (invertebrates) like an oyster, a cricket, or an earthworm, and those with backbones, e.g., a dog, a fish. In this brief study we shall not go into much detail about invertebrates, but with the backboned animals or vertebrates we shall go a little further. These may be divided into five general groups: (1) Fishes; (2) Amphibians, which include frogs, toads, and salamanders; (3) Reptiles, which include alligators, crocodiles, turtles, lizards, and snakes; (4) Birds; (5) Mammals.
This simple analysis may be clearly shown by the following diagram:
| Mammals | |||||||
| Vertebrates | Birds | ||||||
| Reptiles | ||||||||
| Animals | Amphibians | ||||||
| Fishes | ||||||||
| Living Bodies | Invertebrates | ||||||
| (Organic) |
| Flowering Plants | ||||||
| Objects | Flowerless Plants | |||||||
| of | ||||||||
| Nature | Non-living Bodies | |||||||
| (Inorganic) |
This classification could be carried further at every point, but this will be far enough for present purposes. It should be remembered in any classification that there are no hard and fast lines in Nature. For example, some creatures are on the border-land between plants and animals, and again some animals are between the backboned animals and those without backbones.
GREAT-LEAVED MAGNOLIA
A forest tree with large solitary white flowers. Range: Southern and Southeastern United States.
2. Plants
Wild Flowers and Ferns