CONTENTS. VII 



ordinary Horn (378) — Conjectures as to its Use (378) — Fables Respecting it (379) — Medicinal 

 Properties attributed to it (379) — Value of the Narwhal to the Greenlanders (380) — Ships Struck 



by it (380). 



CHAPTER V. 

 THE DOLPHINS. 

 The Delphinidae (381) — The Soosook or Dolphin of the Ganges (382) — The Inia (383) — The 

 Lorelei of the Amazon River (383) — The Tucuxi (384) — The Dolphins Proper (385) — Legends — 

 Symbols (385)— The Common Dolphin (386)— The White-beaked Dolphin (387)— The Bottle- 

 nosed Dolphin (387). 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE PORPOISES AND WHITE WHALES. 

 The Common Porpoise (388) — The Grampus, or Gladiator Dolphin (390) — Its Destructive- 

 ness (391) — Its Name " The Thresher " (391)— The Pilot Whale, or Caaing Whale, or Grind 

 (392) — Mode of Capturing (392)— The White Whale (393) — Specimens Exhibited in Shows (394). 



SIRENIA. 



THE SEA COWS 

 The Order Sirenia (397) — Mermaids (397) — The Family Manatidse (39S) — The Manatees of 

 America (399) — Their Voracity and Laziness (399) — Modes of Capture (399) — Tame Specimens 

 (399)— The Florida Manatee (400) — The African Lamantin (400) — The Eastern Dugong (400)— 

 The Australian Dugong (401)— The Northern Sea Cows (401)— Steller's Description (401) — 

 Extinct since 1768 (403). 



UNGULATA. 



CHAPTER I. 

 HOOFED ANIMALS. 

 The Order Ungulata (407)— The Numerous Families (407) — The Ruminants (407) — Their 

 Peculiar Stomach (408) — Horns (408) — Antlers (408) — Extinct Species (408) — The Original Horse 

 Protohippus (409) — Gradual Development (409) — The Family Equidae ((409) — The Genus Equus 

 (409)— The Horse (410)— The Tarpan or Wild Horse of Tartary (410)— The Mustang or Wild 

 Horse of America (411). 



CHAPTER n. 

 THE ARAB AND THE BARB. 

 Early Domestication of the Horse (416)— The Horse in Egypt (416)— Assyria— Judaea (416)— 

 Greece— Persia (417)— Bits and Stirrups (417)— Chariot Races (417)— The Arab Horse (418)— 

 Exaggerated Pedigrees (4ig)_The Best Arabs (419V— Their Training (419)— Attachment of the 

 Arab for his Mare (420)— Speed and Endurance (421)— The Barb (422)— The Same Horse as the 

 Arab (422)— Abd-el-Kader on the Horse (422). 



