Order
_UNGULATA_--Divisions--PERISSODACTYLA--Characteristics--
EQUIDÆ--Species--Descent--First Domestic Horses in Europe--Used
for Food--Mention of the Horse in the Bible--War-Chariots--The
Horse among the Greeks and Romans--In Britain--Attempts
to Improve the Breed--Colour--Teeth--“The Mark”--The
Foot--Skull--Disease from the Gad-fly--RACE-HORSE--TROTTING
HORSE OF AMERICA--DRAY HORSE--SHETLAND PONY--ARAB AND
BARB--PERSIAN HORSE--WILD HORSES IN AMERICA--Habits--Byron’s
“Mazeppa”--Capture and Breaking in--WILD HORSES IN AUSTRALIA--THE
ASS--Species--Stripes--Characteristics--MULE AND HINNY--WILD
ASS OF TIBET--ONAGER--WILD ASS OF ABYSSINIA--ZEBRAS--BURCHELL’S
ZEBRA--QUAGGA--FOSSIL EQUIDÆ--Distribution--HIPPARION 295
CHAPTER II.
PERISSODACTYLA--THE TAPIR AND RHINOCEROS FAMILIES.
Introductory Remarks on the Tapirs--Foot--Anatomical
Features--Skull--Compared with that of Hog--Skull of Asiatic
Tapir--Proboscis--Dentition--Species of Tapir--THE AMERICAN
TAPIR--Habits--Colour--Modes of Hunting--Docility--THE
HAIRY TAPIR--THE MALAYAN TAPIR--FOSSIL TAPIRS--THE
RHINOCEROSES--General Characteristics--Is it the Reèm of
the Bible?--Ludicrous Ideas respecting it--At Rome--First
Rhinoceroses in Europe--Skeleton--Skull--Horns--Curious
Dental Law--Fore and Hind Limbs--Dentition--AFRICAN
RHINOCEROSES--“WHITE” RHINOCEROS--OSWELL’S RHINOCEROS--BLACK
RHINOCEROS--KEITLOA--RHINOCEROS BICORNIS MINOR--Hunting--Sir
Samuel Baker’s Extraordinary Chase--Gordon Cumming’s Account
of the Characteristics and Habits of the Black and White
South African Rhinoceroses--Rhinoceros Birds--THE ASIATIC
RHINOCEROSES--Connection between Dentition and Horns--THE
INDIAN RHINOCEROS--An Inveterate Enemy of the Elephant--THE
JAVAN RHINOCEROS--THE SUMATRAN RHINOCEROS--THE HAIRY-EARED
RHINOCEROS--How a Specimen, “Begum,” was Captured--THE
FOSSIL RHINOCEROSES--The Extinct Families Palæotheridæ and
Macraucheniadæ 317
CHAPTER III.
ARTIODACTYLA--THE PIG OR HOG FAMILY.
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