CONTENTS. 



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Memoir op Gesner . . . : 17 



Natural History op the Equid-e. — Introduction . 59 



Breeds of Horses noticed by the Ancients . . 106 



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, 



Plate A. fig. 2 83, 109 



Skeleton of the Horse, Plate I. 



External Muscles of the Horse, Plate H. 



The WUd Horse ..... 146 



The Tarpan Wild Horse, primaeval Bay Stock, from a 



Drawing sent from Russia, Plate IH. . . 160 



Feral Horses of America . . . .173 



The Equid^ in General . . . .186 



The Horse. Equus caballus . . . .192 



The Domestic Horse. Equus caballus domesticus . 192 

 Races and Breeds of Domestic Horses . . 208 



The Arabian Race. Plate VIII. . . .210 



The Barb of Morocco . . . .224 



The Shrubat-iu:-reech, grey, of the Morocco Desert, 



from the print published in Italy, Plate XI. . 227 



The Bornou White Race of Africa, drawn from life by 



Col. Hamilton Smith, Plate X. . . . 228 



The Dongola white-footed Black, from the Lithograph 

 published in Italy. It represents the horse which 

 carried a Mameliike chief from the Upper Nile across 

 the Desert to Tunis ! Plate X.* . . 229 



