RUMINATING ANIMALS. 



OUR first Volume devoted to these useful and in- 

 teresting animals, was terminated by the description 

 of a form of great elegance and beauty of colouring ; 

 and we have chosen to commence the present one 

 with a series of animals, which begin to leave the 

 elegant form of the Deer and Antelope, and to 

 run into the more compact make of the Goats and 

 Sheep. As we proposed in the commencement, we 

 still continue the arrangement of Major Smith, as 

 the best which has been hitherto proposed, and based 

 upon actual observation in the greater number of in- 

 stances. At the same time, we have to acknowledge 

 the great benefit we have derived from his various 

 writings upon the different groups of ruminants 

 materials which must form the groundwork of every 

 dissertation on the subject, until our knowledge ar- 

 rives at a much higher degree of perfection. 



Since our first volume appeared, the new classifi- 

 cation of animals by Mr Swainson has been publish- 

 ed, where they are attempted to be arranged accord- 

 ing to the principles of Mr MacLeay. Major Smith, 



