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Any zoological garden or traveling menagerie will show a 

 great variety of animals clearly catlike, and almost every moun- 

 tainous country has its native sheep of some kind. 



The zebra and the quagga of the circus suggest the horse, and 

 the turkey of the New England forests not only resembles our 

 great Thanksgiving bird, but is known to be its direct progenitor.^ 



Fig. 3. The timber wolf a wild relative of the domestic dog. Specimens at 

 the National Park, Washington, D.C. Court3sy of the Superintendent 



Among plants we have wild oats, timothy, and many kinds 

 of clover ; indeed, most of our pasture grasses are truly wild. 

 We have also wild strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries, 

 wild onions, parsnips, and carrots, and whichever way we turn 

 the domesticated animal and plant is found to have a gypsy 

 relative in the wild. 



* For further data on the turkey, see Part II, Chapter XVII. 



