the more altered in character from its wild progenitor than 

 the latter ; Ovh musmon is taken to be the ancestor of the 

 Sheep, and Capra Mgagriis of the Goat, but as there are 

 several wild sheep and goats, very closely allied to the 

 domestic, it is very probable that both species are hybrids to 

 a great extent. 



This concludes the hollow-horned ruminants, truly 

 domestic, there are ii other families of Bovidoe, containing 

 many large and handsome species as the Eland and Koodoo, 

 and it is remarkable that the gentle habits of some of them 

 have not been taken advantage of by man, the thought sug- 

 gests itself to my mind that if man had been more civilised 

 in Africa, where so many of these fine Antelopes are found, 

 it is possible that some of them would have been subdued to 

 his use ; I am the more inclined to adopt this view, 

 because the only solid horned ruminant that has become 

 domestic, the Reindeer, which alone in this respect repre- 

 sents the large group of Stags and Deer, consisting of eight 

 genera and fifty-two species, was a necessity for the Lapps, as 

 without this animal they could not have existed inland, 

 the Esqimaux have not domesticated the Caribou of North 

 America, and the result is they can inhabit the coast dis- 

 tricts only, and subsist on the products of the sea. I have 

 been further strengthened in this view by having recently 

 heard, since I read this paper, that a resident in South 

 Africa has tamed a team of Koodoos. 



The Camels, including the Llamas, are a very restricted 

 group, at most there are but six, perhaps but four species, and 

 four are domestic, a proportion far greater than that of any 

 other group. 



The well-known two humped Bactrian camel, and the 

 even better known Arabian, with one hump, are the only 

 species of camels known, the origin of either from any wild 

 species cannot be satisfactorily made out. 



In Central Asia it is stated that wild camels exist, but 

 admitting this to be the case, they may be descended from 

 domestic animals, which have become feral. 



