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Characters— The Camels (Camelus)— Arabian Camel— Its Various Breeds— Bactrian 

 Camel The Llamas (Lama) — Vicunia — Guanaco — Llama — Alpaca — Extinct Camel- 

 like Ungulates, . ........ 398 



CHAPTER XXV. — Ungulates, — continued. 



The Pig-like Ungulates, Pigs, Peccaries, and Hippopotami — The Pigs (Suidce)— The 

 True Pigs (Sus) — European and Indian Wild Boars— Andaman Pig— Pigmy Hog- 

 Malayan Pigs— Domestic Swine — European Breeds— Masked Swine— Bush-Pigs— 

 Extinct Pigs — The Babirusa (Babirusa) — Its Remarkable Tusks — The Wart-Hogs 

 (Phacochcerus)— The Peccaries (Dicotylidce)— Extinct Types— Hippopotami (Hippopo- 

 tamidce) — Common Hippopotamus — Its Distribution and Habits — Hunting — The 

 Pigmy Hippopotamus — Extinct Species, ... . . 420 



CHAPTER XXVI.— Ungulates,— continued. 



Tapirs, Rhinoceroses, and Horses. — Characteristics of Odd-Toed Ungulates — The Tapirs 

 (Tapiridce) — Characters and Distribution — Malayan Tapir — American Tapirs — Habits 

 — Hunting — The Rhinoceroses (Bhinocerotidce) — Characteristics — Teeth — Horns — 

 Habits — The Asiatic Rhinoceroses — Indian Rhinoceros — Javan Rhinoceros — Allied 

 Extinct Species — Sumatran Species — African Rhinoceroses — Common African Species 

 — Size of Horns — Habits — Hunting — Burchell's Rhinoceros — Holmwood's Rhinoceros 

 — Extinct Rhinoceroses — The Horse-Tribe (Equidce) — Characteristics — Specialisation — 

 Eqmis — Nomenclature of Limbs — Indications of Age — The Horse — Its Distribution — 

 Tarpan — Prejevalski's Horse — Domestication — In America — In Australia — Barbs and 

 Arabs — Arab — Levant and Persian Horses — English Race-Horse — Hunters, etc. — 

 Leaping Powers — American Trotter — Shetland, and other Ponies — Cart-Horses — 

 Shire-Horse — Clydesdale — Suffolk Punch — Foreign Breeds — The Zebras — True Zebra 

 — Burchell's Zebra — Grevy's Zebra — Quagga — The Asses — Asiatic Wild Ass — Varieties, 

 Distribution, and Habits — African Wild Ass — Domestic Ass — Mule — Fossil Horses — 

 Other Extinct Odd-Toed Ungulates — Ancestry of the Horse — Palseotheres and Lophio- 

 dons — Titanotheres and Chalicotheres — Palseosyops, ..... 454 



CHAPTER XXVIL— Ungulates,— concluded. 



Hyraces, Elephants, etc.— Characters of Foot in the Elephants and their Allies — The Hyraces 

 (Hyracoidea) — Characters of the Procaviidce — Distribution — Abyssinian Hyraces — 

 Cape Hyrax — Syrian Hyrax — Tree-Hyraces — Elephants (Proboscidea) — Characters of 

 the Elephantidce—The Skull and Teeth— Habits — Indian Elephant— Distribution- 

 Habits— Breeding— Elephant - Shooting— Modes of Capture— Value and Uses of 

 Elephants— The Mammoth— The African Elephant— Distribution— Habits— Hunting 

 —Mode of Capture— Extinct Elephants— Sutledje Elephant— Narbada Elephant— 

 Straight-Tusked Elephant— Pigmy Species— Southern Elephant— Stegodont Elephants 

 —The Mastodons— The Dinothere— Short-Footed Vngulatefi(Amblypoda)— The Macrau- 

 chenia and its Allies (Litoptema)— The Astrapotheres and their Kin (Astrapothcria)— 

 The Toxodonts (Toxodontia), ........ 517 



CHAPTER XXVIII. — Manatis and Dugongs, — Order Sirenia. 

 Characteristics op the Group.- Mode of Life— Distribution— Classification— Manatis 

 (Manatus) Distribution and Number of Species— Habits— The Dugong (Halicore)— 

 Distribution Hal. its Northern Sea-Cow (Rhytina)— Distribution and Habits- 

 Extermination -Tertiary Sirenians, ....... 567 



Index to Second Volume, comprising Skctioxs 111. and IV, .... 577 



