DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 



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 the rabbit, the domes- 

 ticated forms of these animals are only wild species tamed 

 and reared under man's hand but not much modified by breed- 

 ing. There are about fifteen races of domesticated rabbits 

 all of which probably trace their lineage back to wild species 

 native to Spain and Southern France. 



FIG. 145. Silver-laced Wyandotte cockerel. 



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 domestic birds, lists more than seventy 

 races of chickens now living, thirteen races of ducks, ten of 

 geese, and eight of turkeys. Of pigeons there must be nearly as 

 many domestic races as there are of chickens. And yet all of 



