Prof. Owen on the Rwninnnt Qruidruped^. 



■65 



9' lap, and an occasional riuliinent of the hump in these white cattle, 



» as well as the approximation to the light-grey colour characteristic of 



3 the Brahminy race, seemed to point to their primitive oriental source. 



-; But the speaker could not regard the pure white colour as natural to 



a primitive wild stock of oxen. It is now maintained hy the careful 



destruction of all piehald calves that are produced by the so-preserved 



half-wild breeds. 



If the blood of any of the aboriginal cattle, contemporary with the 

 Mammoth and hairy Rhinoceros, still flowed in the veins of any of our 

 domesticated races, he thought it would be that of the Bos longi/rons 

 transmitted through the short-horned or hornless varieties of the oxen 

 of the mountains of Wales and Scotland. 



In conclusion the speaker referred to the subjoined table of the 

 classification of recent and extinct hoofed quadrupeds, as indicative 

 of the progressive extinction of those forms of Ungulata least likely 

 to be of use to man, and of the substitution of the ruminant forms, 

 which, from the perfect digestion of their food, elaborate from it the 

 most sapid and nutritious kinds of flesh. 



UNGULATA. 



Aberraiitia. 



Typicn. 

 A 



( \ 



ArTIODACTYLA*. PERISSODACTYLAf. 



.,-A_ 



TOXODOXTIA. 



Toxodon. 

 Nesodon. 



Proboscidia. 



Elephas. 



Mastodon. 



Dinotheriura. 



Anoplotherium. Palseotherium. 



Chalicotherium. Paloplotherium. 



Dichobune. Lophiodon. 



Cainotherium. Coryphodon. 



Poebrotherium. TapirusX- 



Xiphodon. Macrauchenia. 



Moschus X • Hippotherium . 



Antelope. Equus. 



Ovis. Elasmotherium. 



Bos. Hyrax. 



Cerrus. Rhinoceros. 



Camelopurdalxs. Acerotherium . 



Camelus. 



Auchenia. 



Merycotheriura. 



Merycopotamus. 



Hippopotamus. 



Dichodon. 



Hyracotherium. 



Hyopotamus. 



Anthracotherium. 



Hippohyus. 



Chceropotamus. 



Dicotyles. 



Phacochoerus. 



Sus. 



* 'Xprios, par ; BdicrvKos, digitus. 

 t Hfpiira-obdKTvXot, qui digitos habet impares numero. 

 X Only those genera printed in italics now exist. 

 Ann. is- Mag. iV. Hist. Ser. 2. Vol. xviii. 



SiRENIA. 



Manatus, 



Halicore. 



Rytina. 



Halitheriura. 



Prorastomus. 



