Digitigrada
a section of the order Carnivora, comprising the lions, tigers, cats, dogs, etc., in which the heel is raised above the ground, so that the animals walk more or less on the tips of the toes. The other two sections are the Pinnigrada and the Plantigrada. The section Digitigrada is divided into the DIKE families Mustelidæ, Viverridæ, Canidæ Hyænidæ, and Felide. The first two are aberrant, being semiplantigrade.
DIJON (dē-zhôn'), the chief town in the French department of Côte-d'Or, formerly capital of the old duchy of Burgundy, lies, spread out on a fertile plain at the foot of Mont Afrique (1,916 feet), at the junction of the Ouche and Suzon, and on the Canal de Bourgogne, 196 miles S. E. of Paris by rail. Its importance as a railway center has rendered it of consequence in the inner line of French defenses. On the death of Charles the Bold it came with Burgundy into the possession of France in 1477.
In October, 1870, after a sharp engagement before the city, Dijon capitulated to a German force. There was again severe fighting here in January, 1871.
Pop. about 75,000.