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woolly ; the venlriculas with membraneous cells, one of which is 

 very large to contain xvater ; male organs sknder, reversed in a 

 state of repose ; scaphoid and cuboid bones of the tarsus sepa- 

 rated; stature very large. 



Camelus Dromedarius, Linnseus. (Dromedary.) Head 

 small ; back with a single hunch ; ears short ; neck long, slen- 

 der, and bending ; hair soft, longest about the neck, throat, 

 and hunch ; colour on the latter dusky ; on the other parts a 

 reddish ash tint. Tail long, the hair on the middle soft, on 

 the sides long, coarse, and black. Length from nose to base of 

 tail about seven feet six inches ; length of tail about sixteen 

 inches ; height about four feet eight inches. 



Inhabits Northern Africa and Asia. 



Camelus Arabicus, Pliny, lih.Viu.c. 18. Camelus Dromas, 

 Gesuer, Quad. 159. Le Dromedaire, Buff. Forskal, iv. No. 12. 



Tkibe CERVID.E. 



No horns, or deciduous horns ; feet truly bisulcated ; struc- 

 ture eleiiant, slender, mostly with muzzle, suborbital sinus, and 

 with canines in the upper-jaws of the males ; succentorial hoofs. 



Genus Cervus. Linnceus. 



Incisors l, canines%l or hi, molars U, — 32, or 34. The ca- 

 nines in some males compressed and bent back ; head long, ter- 

 minated i?i most by a muzzle; ears laige; pupils elongated; 

 suborbital sinus in most; tongue soft ; no gall bladders; four 

 inguinal mammce. Horns solid, deciduous ; existing in the males 

 only, in the females 'with one exception none, palmated, branched 

 or simple; the horn consisting in a burr, or rose- shaped foot, a 

 beam and branches, or antlers ; succentorial hoofs in all. 



Sub-genus Elaphus. — Horns round; three antlers turned to 

 the front ; summit terminating in a fork or in snags from a com- 

 mon centre ; suborbital sinus; canines in the males ; a muzzle. 



Cervus Elaphus. (The Stag.) Horns with three anterior 

 antlers, all curving upwards; the summit forming a crown of 

 Bnags from a common centre ; tail middle-sized ; lachrymary 

 sinus ; muzzle ; canines in tlic males ; colour red-brown in sum- 

 mer, brown-grey in winter; pale disk on buttocks. 



Vur. Barbary and Corsican Stag. Browner, smaller, 

 lower ; horns terminating in forks ? This is the Bukr-al washi, 

 and the female Foitass, ox Broad Scalp, because without horns, 

 of the Moors, 



