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GASSELL'S NATURAL HISTORY 



\VATEll DEEKLET, OR CHEVROTAIN. 



CHAPTER I. 



ARTIODACTYLA RUMINANTIA : BOVIDJE SHEEP, GOATS, AND GAZELLES. 



Ruminantia Chewing the Cud Metaphorical Expression The Complicated Stomach : Paunch, Honey-comb Bag, Manyplies, 

 Reed Order of Events in Rumination Feet and Dentition of Ruminants Brain Classification HORNED RUMI- 

 NANTS Divided into two Groups Difference between them BOVID.E Horns Aberrant Members SHEEP AND 

 GOATS General Characteristics Sheep of South- Western Asia Merino Sheep Breeds of Great Britain Dishley, 

 or Improved Leicesters Mr. Bakewell's Description Southdowns, Cheviots, Welsh, and other British Breeds 

 Table of the Importation of Colonial and Foreign Wool into the United Kingdom MARCO POLO'S SHEEP OORIAL 

 SHAPOO MOUFLON AMMON BURHEL AMERICAN ARGALI WILD SHEEP OF BARBART THE GOAT Compared with 

 the Sheep Descent Cashmere Goat IBEXES- PASENG Their remarkable Horns Old Theories as to the Use of the 

 Horns MARKHOOR TAHR GAZELLES General Characteristics Sir Victor Brooke's Classification THE GAZELLE 

 Appearance Habits ARABIAN GAZELLE- PERSIAN GAZELLE SOEMMERING'S GAZELLE GRANT'S GAZELLE SPRING- 

 BOK SAIGA- CHIRU THE PALLAH, OR IMPALLA THE INDIAN ANTELOPE, OR BLACK BUCK. 



THE Swine, together with those animals which most nearly approach them, namely, the Peccaries 

 and Hippopotami, form but a small division of the cloven-hoofed order of the Mammalian 

 animals ; by far the greater number of the species of the Artiodactyla being included in a group 

 known familiarly as that of the Ruminantia, because, as part of the digestive process, they chew 

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This chewing the cud is a phenomenon restricted to the group of animals now under consideration, 

 although it may be mentioned that some naturalists have thought that the Kangaroos among the 

 Marsupials do the same to a certain extent. 

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