DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 



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and Capra jemlaica of the Himalayas. The earliest pre- 

 historic indications of tame goats come from the times of 

 the Lake-dwellers. In the Bronze Age they were common. 

 Other mammals that are represented by domestic races are 

 the camel, the elephant, the water buffalo, the rabbit, the 

 ferret, the reindeer, the lama and alpaca, the guinea-pig, 

 the mouse, the rat, etc. But excepting with the rabbit the 



FIG. 143. White Hall Sultan, a Shorthorn prize bull. (After Plumb.,) 



domesticated forms of these animals are only wild species 

 tamed and reared under man's hand but not much modi- 

 fied by breeding. There are several well-marked races 

 of domesticated rabbits all of which probably trace their 

 lineage back to a wild species native to Spain and South- 

 ern France. 



Of birds there are domesticated races of doves, chickens, 

 turkeys, ducks, geese, swans, pea-fowls, pheasants, canary 

 birds, ostriches, cormorants and others. Of these the doves 

 and chickens are represented by the most varieties. Brown, 

 an English authority on domesticated birds, lists more than 



