CATALOGUE 



OP 



RUMINANTS 



(PECORA, Linn.). 



Order PECORA. 



Teeth of two or three kinds. Cutting-teeth 8 below ; 

 grinders 6 on each side in each jaw; canines more or 

 less developed ; grinders all similar. 



Stomach complicated. Gullet with two long pouches 

 just before the stomach, used for holding and soaking 

 the food before it is chewed. Front of upper jaw tooth- 

 less, callous, rarely toothed with sharp-edged teeth. 

 Toes in pairs ; bones of both the metacarpus and the 

 metatarsus united. Hoofs triangular, rarely com- 

 pressed. 



Using the head and horns for defence. 



Bovidse, Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 8. 



The front edge of the jaw in Camelidce alone is provided with 

 cutting-teeth. 



The metacarpal (and metatarsal) bones are united into a single 

 bone called the cannon, except in Hyemoschidce, where they are se- 

 parate. 



The males and generally females furnished with a prominent long 

 process on each frontal bone, which is either permanent during the 

 life of the animal, with the upper part extended and permanently 

 covered with a sheath or with hairy skin, or it developes into a definite 

 shape covered with a hairy skin during the time of development, 

 and eventually falls off, to be again developed. 



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