CONTENTS. 



PAbA 



MEMOIR OP GESNER 



NATURAL HISTORY OP THE EQUIDJE. Introduction . 



Breeds of Horses noticed by the Ancients 



Medo-Persian Horse, ancient maned Dun Stock, from 

 Bas-reliefs of the Che-el-minar Plate A. fig. 1 

 Egyptian Horse, Ancient Bay Stock, from Thebes, 



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Skeleton of the Horse, Plate I. 



External Muscles of the Horse, Plate II. 



The Wild Horse 



The Tarpan Wild Horse, primaeval Bay Stock, from a 



Drawing sent from Russia, Plate III. 



Feral Horses of America . .173 



THE EQUID^B IN GENERAL . 

 The Horse. Equus caballus . 

 The Domestic Horse. Equus caballus domesticus 

 Races and Breeds of Domestic Horses 

 The Arabian Race. Plate VIII. 



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The Barb of Morocco 



The Shrubat-ur-reech, grey, of the Morocco Desert, 

 from the print published in Italy, Plate XI. 



The Bornou White Race of Africa, drawn from life by 

 Col. Hamilton Smith, Plate X. 



The Dongola white-footed Black, from the Lithograph 

 published in Italy. It represents the horse which 

 carried a Mameluke chief from the Upper Nile across 

 the Desert to Tunis 1 Plate X.* . 223 



