Ruminantia--Chewing the Cud--Metaphorical Expression--The Complicated Stomach: Paunch, Honey-comb Bag, Manyplies, Reed--Order of Events in Rumination--Feet and Dentition of Ruminants--Brain--Classification--HORNED RUMINANTS--Divided into two Groups--Difference between them--BOVIDÆ--Horns--Aberrant Members--SHEEP AND GOATS--General Characteristics--Sheep of South-Western Asia--Merino Sheep--Breeds of Great Britain--Dishley, or Improved Leicesters--Mr. Bakewell’s Description--Southdowns, Cheviots, Welsh, and other British Breeds--Table of the Importation of Colonial and Foreign Wool into the United Kingdom--MARCO POLO’S SHEEP--OORIAL--SHAPOO--MOUFLON--AMMON--BURHEL--AMERICAN ARGALI--WILD SHEEP OF BARBARY--THE GOAT--Compared with the Sheep--Descent--Cashmere Goat--IBEXES--PASENG--Their remarkable Horns--Old Theories as to the Use of the Horns--MARKHOOR--TAHR--GAZELLES--General Characteristics--Sir Victor Brooke’s Classification--THE GAZELLE--Appearance--Habits--ARABIAN GAZELLE--PERSIAN GAZELLE--SOEMMERRING’S GAZELLE--GRANT’S GAZELLE--SPRINGBOK--SAÏGA--CHIRU--THE PALLAH, OR IMPALLA--THE INDIAN ANTELOPE, OR BLACK BUCK 1 CHAPTER II. ARTIODACTYLA--RUMINANTIA: BOVIDÆ: (_continued_)--ANTELOPES. THE STEINBOKS: KLIPSPRINGER, OUREBI, STEINBOK, GRYSBOK, MADOQUA--THE BUSH-BUCKS--Appearance--Distinctive Marks--THE FOUR-HORNED ANTELOPES--Peculiarity in the Chikarah--THE WATER ANTELOPES: NAGOR, REITBOK, LECHÈ, AEQUITOON, SING-SING, WATER-BUCK, POKU, REH-BOK--THE ELAND--Beef--Appearance--Captain Cornwallis Harris’ Description--Hunting--Scarcity--THE KOODOO--Appearance--King of Antelopes--ANGAS’ HARNESSED ANTELOPE--THE HARNESSED ANTELOPES: GUIB--BUSH BUCK, OR UKOUKA--Appearance--Pluck--THE BOVINE ANTELOPES--THE BUBALINE--HARTEBEEST--BLESBOK--BONTEBOK--SASSABY--THE GNU--Grotesque Appearance--Habits--BRINDLED GNU--THE CAPRINE ANTELOPES--SEROW--Ungainly Habits--GORAL--CAMBING-OUTAN--TAKIN--MAZAMA--THE CHAMOIS--Distribution--Appearance--Voice--Hunted--THE ORYXES--BLAUBOK--SABLE ANTELOPE--BAKER’S ANTELOPE--ORYX--BEISA--BEATRIX--GEMSBOK--ADDAX 17 CHAPTER III. ARTIODACTYLA--RUMINANTIA: BOVIDÆ (_concluded_)--OXEN, PRONGHORN ANTELOPE, MUSK [DEER], AND GIRAFFE.