HORSE : ox. 81 



HORSE. 



WHEN horses are out at pasture, and resort in hot 

 weather, as they constantly do, to the shade of some 

 tree, they may often be observed at such times stand- 

 ing parallel to one another, but with their heads in 

 opposite directions. By this arrangement, with their 

 tails they brush the flies from one another's faces. 



ox. 



M. MILNE-EDWARDS has observed* that the com- 

 mon ox, when it lies down, after grazing, for the pur- 

 pose of chewing the cud, usually reposes upon the 

 left side. Any little fact of this sort has an interest, 

 if it -really admits of generalization ; and I have 

 often amused myself, when among cattle feeding 

 in pastures, by watching them with a view to this 

 point. But, in general, I have found the numbers 

 lying upon the right and left side respectively so 

 nearly equal that I can hardly attach any importance 

 to the above statement. Still, I think I have more 

 often observed an excess on the part of those lying 

 upon their left side, over those on their right, than 

 the contrary. 



White, in one of his letters to Pennant, speaks of 

 a calculus cegagropila which had been taken out of 

 the stomach of a fat ox.f Professor Henslow tells 

 me that he has got two such calculi or balls, that were 

 found together in the stomach of a calf only nine 



* Elemens de Zoologie, p. 457. 



*t Nat. Hist, of Selbwne., Lett. XXXV. to Pennant. 



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