THE 



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Yol. XII. (I.S.), lo. 27. MARCH, 1910. 



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THE DOMESTIC HOKSE AND THEIR 



SIGNIFICANCE. 



MAJOR F. EASSIE, D.S.O. 



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(PLATES XVI.-XX.) 



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