viii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER III. 

 THE RACE-HORSE AND TROTTING HORSE. 



The Race-Horse (425) — The English Turf {426) — The American Turf (427) — Imported Horses 

 (427) — The Trotting-Horse (428)— Flora Temple (431)— Steve Maxwell (432)— St, Julien and 

 Maud S (432) — The Narragansett Pacers (432) — Pocahontas (432). 



CHAPTER IV. 



EUROPEAN HORSES. 



The Hunter (434) — The Hackney (434) — The Russian Horse (436) — The Austrian Horse (437) 



— The Holstein Horse (,43S) — The French Horse (43S) — The Italian Horse (440) — The Races at 



Rome (440) — The Spanish Horse (440) — The Shetland Pony (441) — The Carriage Horse (443) — 



The Cart Horse (443)— The Percheron Horse (443), 



CHAPTER V. 

 THE WILD AND THE COMMON ASS. 

 The Wild Asses (445) — The Kulan or Dziggetai (445) — Their Speed (446) — Domestication 

 (446)— The Wild Ass of the Bible (447)— The ."African Wild Ass (448)— The Common Ass (448) 

 — Its Patience — Its Intelligence (449) — The Egyptian Ass (450). 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE ZEBRAS. 



The Zebras or Tiger-Horses (452) — The Quagga (452) — The Dauw, or Burchell's Zebra (453 ) — 



Harris's Description of it (454) — The Zebra Proper (454) — Hunting the Zebra (455) — Cross- 



Breeds (456) — The Mule (456J — The Hinny (456) — Instances of their Fertility (,457) — Darwinism 



(457)- 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE TAPIRS. 



The Family Tapiridse (458) — The American Tapir (458) — Its Trunk (459) — Its Habits (459) — 



The Tapir as a Domestic Auimal (460) — A Tapir Hunt (461) — Peculiar Marks of the Young 



Tapir (461) — The Malay Tapir (462) — Its Trunk (462) — Its Color (4621 — Discoverj' of the Animal 



(462) — Chinese Account (463) — The Pinchaque (463) — Baird's Tapir {463). 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 THE RHINOCEROS. 

 The Family Rhinocerotidae (464) — General Description (464) — The Horn — Peculiar Struc- 

 ture of the Horn (465) — Known to the Ancients (466) — Woodcut by Albert Durer (466) — Arab 

 Superstitions (466) — Haunts of the Rhinoceros (466) — A Nocturnal Animal (467) — Its Food- 

 Its Habits (467)— Its Senses (468) — Its Fits of Rage (468)— Maternal Affection (469)— Its Friends 

 the Small Birds (469) — Captive Rhinoceroses (470) — Uses of its Hide (470). 



CHAPTER IX. 

 THE ASIATIC RHINOCEROSES. 

 The One-homed Rhinoceroses (470) — The Indian Rhinoceros (470)— Its Thick Hide (470) — 

 Mode of Hunting (473) — The Wara or Javanese Rhinoceros (473) — The Emperor Baber (474) — 



