VI CONTENTS. 



THE HORSE — DAPPLING — DARK STRIPES ON THE SPINE, LEGS, 

 SHOULDERS, AND FOREHEAD — DUN-COLOURED HORSES MOST FRE- 

 QUENTLY STRIPED — STRIPES PROBABLY DUE TO REVERSION TO THE 

 PRIMITIVE STATE OF THE HORSE. 



ASS^S. BREEDS OF — COLOUR OF LEG AND SHOULDER-STRIPES 



SHOULDER-STRIPES SOMETIMES ABSENT, SOMETIMES FORKED. 



Pages 51-67 



CHAPTER III. 



PIGS — CATTLE — SHEEP — COATS. 



PIGS BELONG TO TWO DISTINCT TYPES, SUS SCROFA AND INDICUS — 

 TORFSCHWEIN — JAPAN PIGS— FERTILITY OF CROSSED PIGS — CHANGES 

 IN THE SKULL OF THE HIGHLY CULTIVATED RACES — CONVERGENCE 

 OF CHARACTER — GESTATION — SOLID-HOOFED SWINE — CURIOUS AP- 

 PENDAGES TO THE JAWS — DECREASE IN SIZE OF THE TUSKS — 

 YOUNG PIGS LONGITUDINALLY STRIPED — FERAL PIGS — CROSSED 

 BREEDS. 



CATTLE. — ZEBU A DISTINCT SPECIES — EUROPEAN CATTLE PROBABLY 

 DESCENDED FROM THREE WILD FORMS — ALL THE RACES NOW 

 FERTILE TOGETHER — BRITISH PARK CATTLE — ON THE COLOUR OF 

 THE ABORIGINAL SPECIES — CONSTITUTIONAL DIFFERENCES — SOUTH 

 AFRICAN RACES — SOUTH AMERICAN RACES — NIATA CATTLE — ORIGIN 

 OF THE VARIOUS RACES OF CATTLE. 



SHEEP. — REMARKABLE RACES OF — VARIATIONS ATTACHED TO THE 

 MALE SEX — ADAPTATIONS TO VARIOUS CONDITIONS — GESTATION OF 

 CHANGES IN THE WOOL — SEMI-MONSTROUS BREEDS. 



GOATS.— REMARKABLE VARIATIONS OF 68-106 



CHAPTER IY. 



DOMESTIC EABBITS. 



DOMESTIC RABBITS DESCENDED FROM THE COMMON WILD RABBIT — 

 ANCIENT DOMESTICATION — ANCIENT SELECTION — LARGE LOP-EARED 

 BABBITS — VARIOUS BREEDS — FLUCTUATING CHARACTERS — ORIGIN 

 OF THE HIMALAYAN BREED — CDRIOUS CASE OF INHERITANCE — 

 FERAL RABBITS IN JAMAICA AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS — PORTO 

 bAMTO FERAL RABBITS — OSTEOLOGICAL CHARACTERS — SKULL- 



