ATAMMALIA. 3 



known in Arabia, and is not extinct there, though very rare. I have seen 

 this species in a state of nature frequently in the Sahara, and have 

 handled captured though not tamed individuals. It no doubt, as the Arabs 

 assure me, occasionally enters the Hauran. Their language, as well as 

 the Hebrew, recognises two species of Wild Ass. 



5. Asintis hciuippns. St. Hilaire. Compt. Rend, .xli., p. 1214. Syrian 

 Wild Ass. Heb. Nn5. Arab. >&-), y-^/-MT. 



This, rather smaller than the true Onager, and confined to Syria, Meso- 

 potamia and North Arabia, very rarely enters the north of Palestine from 

 the Syrian desert, but is still common in Mesopotamia. It does not 

 extend into India, but in summer herds of this animal frequently visit 

 the Armenian mountains. It is the Wild Ass of Scripture and of the 

 Ninevite sculptures. 



FAMILY, SUINA. 



6. 6"?/^- scrofa. L. Syst. Nat. i., p. T02. Wild Boar. Heb. n^n. 

 Arab. <_aj)l=., Halhvif, yi/y^, Khanzir. 



The Wild Boar is abundant in every part of the country, especially 

 where there are marshes or thickets. It extends into the bare wilderness, 

 even where there is no cover, nor other food than the roots of desert 

 bulbs. 



The Wild Boar is found throughout the whole of the Old World 

 except South Africa. Some naturalists distinguish the Indian from the 

 European. If they be distinct species, the Syrian must be classed with 

 the European rather than the Eastern form, though Mr. Gray has held 

 it to be a distinct species with the name of S7^s libycus. 



ORDER, RUMINANTIA. 



FAMILY, TYLOPODA. 

 7. Caiiicnis dromedarius. L. Syst. Nat. i., p. 90. Camel. Heb. 

 7fiil. Arab. J*c., Djunel. 



The One-Humped Camel is the only species used in Palestine. It is 

 bred abundantly on the plains of Moab and in the south of Judsea ; but is 



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