viii CONTENTS. 



(631)— The Hartcbeest (632)— The Sassaby (632)— The Gnu (633)— The Chamois (633)— The Goral 

 (635) — The Mountain Goat of the Rocky Mountains (638). 



CHAPTER XXX. 



GOATS AND IBEXES. 

 The Genus Capra (637) — The Goats (637) — The Bezoar Goat or Paseng (639) — The Casti- 

 iT.ere Goat (639) — The Angora Goat (640) — The Mamber Goat (641)— The Markhor and Tahir 

 (641) — The Eg3-ptian Goat (641) — The Ibexes (642) — The Alpine Ibex (642) — The Pyrenean Ibex 

 (643) — The Arabian Ibex (644). 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



THE SHEEP AND THE MUSK-OX. 



The Aoudad (646)— The Moufflon (647)— The Argali (647)— The Katshkar (648)— The Big 



Horn (648) — Its Habits (649) — Fat-tailed Sheep (649) — The Cretan Sheep (650) — The Southdown 



(651) — The Leicester (651) — The Merino (652) — The Highland Sheep (653) — The Genus Ovibos 



(653) — The Musk-ox of North America 1654). 



PROBOSCIDEA. 



CHAPTER I. 

 ELEPHANTS IN GENERAL, 

 The Order Proboscidea — Derivation of Name (657)^The Family Elephantidje (657) — Fossil 

 Elephants— The Mammoth (657)— The Masfodon (65S)— The Elephant (659)— Its Trunk— Its 

 Tusks (660) — The Elephant in History (661) — In the East — In Rome — In Modern Times (603). 



CHAPTER n. 

 THE ASIATIC ELEPHANT. 

 The Asiatic Elephant (665)— Its Use (666) — Mode of Capture in Ceylon (666) — Points of a 

 Good Elephant (669) — White Elephants (670) — Funeral of a White Elephant (670) — The Dwarf 

 Elephant (671). 



CHAPTER HI. 

 THE ELEPHANT. 

 The African Elephant — Difference from the Indian Elephant (672) — Hunting the Elephant 

 ^672) — Delegorgue (672) — Gordon Gumming {673)— The Abyssinian " Hockcutters" (674) — 

 Captive Elephants (676) — Baby Elephants (676) — Anecdotes of Elephants (677). 



HYRACOIDEA. 



THE ROCK RABBITS. 

 The Order Hyracoidea (681)— The Genus Hyrax (6S1)— Its Characteristics (682). 



