THE I.VI \ TOED UNGl LAI 



gardod as the original stock, may be a race which has 

 returned to a wild state, since partly wild bore • cur in 

 8 ria, on the Don, and live in great herds on the Han 

 and pampas South America. There are two primiti 

 races of horses, the Oriental and Western. To I 

 belong three types: the Arabian, with the Berber, Anda- 

 lusian, Neapolitan; and in England the blood horse; the 

 Nizaischan type of the Deccan, India, to which belong the 

 Persian, Turkestan, Turkish horses, and the Tartarian. 

 The western races comprise the Frieseland, to winch I 

 the Brabant, Bolstein, Mecklenburg, and the English farm- 

 horse, and among other- the Percheron horse, "f Fram 

 Ponies are dwarf horses produced in cool, mountainous 

 anas, such as the Shetland Islands. The wild ass 



", ranges from tin- Indus t<> Mesopotamia. / . 

 hemionus the Dschiggetai or Kiang, in herds in ci 



tral Asia and Mongolia. Recently, Prevalsky, a Russian 



Cplorer, has di« d a n< • • "f horse in the ele- 



vated portions of ( entral Asia, which has been named 

 Eguus Prevalskii. The hinny aud mule are infertile hy- 

 brids of the horse aud 



Artiodactyles. — The even-toed CTngulates comprise the 

 peccary, pig, hippopotamus, and the Ruminants, which are 



presented by the deer, sheep, ox. and camel. The : 

 and peccary are the descendants of a number of extii 

 earlier forms which flourished in the Tertiary Period; the 

 . as Marsh observes, having held 

 with characteristic pertinacity. The peccary 

 (/), • i is a small creature. clos< m- 



blinga long-legged pig. It lives in swampy 

 tracts from Tex ' ntral and South 



America. 1: goes in herds, and is afear] 

 Fm." mof animal. The // damus (Fig. 310) has 



;!;r 'u^'e^-ia large head, with large can clumsy 



body, and short legs. Hippopotamus am- 

 phibius ranges from the Upper Nile to the Cape of G 

 Hope, and westward to Senegambia, It is nearly 3J m, 



