210 TYPES OF ANIMAL LIFE 



section is that of the hollow-horned ruminants, among 

 which are found those creatures most useful to man, the 

 sheep and the goat, and that animal which was a very 

 providence to the inhabitants of the region which is 

 now the United States when it was first visited by 

 civilised man, namely, the so-called buftalo or American 

 bison. 



