Vi CONTENTS. 



THE HOUSE — DAPPLING DARK STRIPES ON THE SPINE, LEGS, 



SHOULDERS, AND FOXEHEAD — DUN-COLOURED HORSES MOST FRE- 

 QUENTLY STRIPED — STRIPES PROBABLY DUE TO REVERSION TO THE 

 PRIMITIVE STATE OF THE HORSE. 

 ASSES. — BREEDS OF — COLOUR OF — LEG AND SHOULDER-STRIPES— 

 BHCCTLDER-STRIPES SOMETIMES ABSENT, SOMETIMES FORKED. 



Pages 51-67 



CHAPTER III. 



PIGS — CATTLE — SHEEP — GOATS. 



PIGS BELONG TO TWO DISTINCT TYPES, SUS SCROFA AND INDICUS — 



TOBFSCHWEIN JAPAN PIGS — FERTILITY OF CROSSED FIGS — CHANGES 



IN THE SKULL OF THE HIGHLY CULTIVATED RACES — CONVERGENCE 

 OF CHARACTER — GESTATION— SOLID-HOOFED SWINE — CURIOUS AP- 

 PENDAGES TO THE JAWS — DECREASE IN SIZE OF THE TUSKS — 



YOUNG PIGS LONGITUDINALLY STRIPED FERAL PIGS— CROSSED 



BREEDS. 



CATTLE. — ZEBU A DISTINCT SPECIES — EUROPEAN CATTLE PROBABLY 

 DESCENDED FROM THREE WILD FORMS — ALL THE RACES NOW 

 FERTILE TOGETHER — BRITISH PARK CATTLE — ON THE COLOUR OF 

 THE ABORIGINAL SPECIES — CONSTITUTIONAL DIFFERENCES — SOUTH 



AFRICAN RACES — SOUTH AMERICAN RACES — NIATA CATTLE 0RIGI8 



OF THE VARIOUS RACES OF CATTLE. 



SHEEP. — REMARKABLE RACES OF — VARIATIONS ATTACHED TO THE 

 MALE SEX — ADAPTATIONS TO VARIOUS CONDITIONS — GESTATION OP 

 — CHANGES IN THE WOOL — SEMI-MONSTROUS BREEDS. 



GOATS.— REMARKABLE VARIATIONS OF 68-106 



CHAPTEE IV. 



DOMESTIC BABBITS. 



DOMESTIC RABBITS DESCENDED FROM THE COMMON WILD RABBIT — 

 ANCIENT DOMESTICATION — ANCIENT SELECTION — LARGE LOP-EARED 

 RABBITS — VARIOUS BREEDS — FLUCTUATING CHARACTERS — ORIGIN 

 OF THE HIMALAYAN BREED — CURIOUS CASE OF INHERITANCE — 

 FERAL RABBITS IN JAMAICA AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS — PORTO 

 SANTO FERAL RABBITS — OSTEOLOCxICAL CHARACTEhs -- SKULL— 



