'212 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF SOUTH CAROLINA; 



ORDER UNGULATA. HOOFED MAMMALS. 



Herbivorous, terrestrial mammals, possessing three sorts of teeth, the 

 ])ermanent series of which is preceded by a set of milk teeth. Fingers 

 and toes encased in horny coverings or hoofs, and never prehensile. 

 i3ne sub-group with liorns or antlers, and more or less complex stomachs 

 (Artiodactijli) — deer, antelope, swine, &c. ; another with neither {Per issodac- 

 tyll) — horses, tapirs, &c. 



The most useful of mammalian orders, including the majority of domes- 

 ticated animals, and furnishing the greatest proportion of the most valu- 

 able animal products employed in the arts and for consumption. 



The order is not abundantly represented in North America, the num- 

 l)er of recognized species being about fifteen. 



CERVID^. 



VIRGINIA DEER. Cariacus virglnianus (Boddaert), Gray, 



WAPITI ; ELK. Cervus canadensis, E^rxleben. (Extinct.) 



BISON; BUFFALO. Bison americanus, (Gmelin) Smith. (Extinct.)* 



ORDER CETE. WHALES. 



An order of aquatic mammals, devoid of hind limbs, but possessing 

 fore limbs, modified into paddles, the fingers being furnished with an 

 unusual number of bones, and enveloped in a common integument. 

 Skin without hair ; teeth, when present (porpoises, sperm whales, &c.), 

 conical and not preceded by milk teeth ; absent in some species (baleen 

 whales), which are furnished, instead, with horny plates. 



The whales are, perhaps, the least known of mammals. The number 

 of species is still unsettled, and the habits and migrations of some are yet, 

 entirely unknown. 



*Mr. Vincent killed the last elk known of in South Carolina, in Fairfield 

 co.:nty. The following statement regardin;:^ the last buffalo known on the Atlantic 

 slope is by Col. Chas. C. Jones, Jr., of Augusta, Ga. : 



" I have seen the skull of a buffalo, with the horns still attached, in good state of 

 preservation, which was ploughed up in a field in Brooks county, Georgia ; and the 

 father of Mr. J.imes Hamilton Couper, of St. Simon's island, shot a wild buffalo early 

 in the present century, near the head waters of Turtle river, not very far from Bruns- 

 wick, Georgia. The swamp is known to this day as Buffalo swamp. 



