346 Mr. Burnett's Illustrations of the Caballince. 



the possession or non-possession of horns, or antlers, and their 

 deciduous or persistent nature : but this is extraneous to our 

 present purpose. The spurious canines of the camel, and its 

 transitional hoofs, would seem to connect it with the other 

 types, and form a link with the hoofed and the claw-footed 

 beasts. — (Vide Table, p. 353.) 



The horse and its allies, the hemione, the ass, the zebra, and 

 the quaccha, the varieties of which are multitudinous, although 

 they have mostly been referred to a single genus, and the chief 

 of them even to a single species, will form the last race of the 

 hoofed quadrupeds ; the indicial character of which will be 

 the possession of true incisor teeth in both jaws ; each extre- 

 mity terminates in a single greatly developed digit encased in 

 an undivided hoof: the lateral toes may be seen as mere abor- 

 tions. These animals do not ruminate. CABALLINiE, Ju- 

 menta, Solipeda, Solidungula, Monungulosa, Exarmenta, are 

 the various synonymes which different considerations might, 

 with almost equal justice, apply to this race of beasts; the 

 first is that which may be probably preferred. (Vide Table, 

 p. 352.) 



To pursue this analysis through all the kinds, the genera, 

 and the species ; or to critically examine how far many of the 

 genera would admit, and, indeed, require subdivision, would 

 far exceed the scope of the present essay ; the following tables 

 must now suffice : the developement of each kind would, in 

 itself, form matter for an especial dissertation. All that was 

 here proposed has been to indicate, and that in outline only, 

 the general connexions of the kinds, the races, and the types 

 of quadrupeds: and, as far as may be practicable, to render 

 consentaneous popular and scientific terms. The uncouth 

 and elaborate titles, with which too many genera and species 

 are encumbered and disguised, might often in like manner be 

 most advantageously reformed, and their magniloquent epithets 

 be changed for other more simple and familiar names : but 

 this would anticipate a future consideration, and involve a 

 question of too great extent to be compatible with the present 

 form and stage of these outline indications. 



The genera of Linnaeus, however, it may be remarked, here 

 as elsewhere, are rather associations of secondary than of pri- 

 mary groups of species ; they are, in fact, rather kinds than 



