IV CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER III. 



THE RACE-HORSE AND TROTTING HORSE. 



The Race-Horse (425) — The English Turf (426) — The American Turf (427) — Imported Horses 

 (427) — The Trotting-Horse (428) — Flora Temple (431) — Steve Maxwell (432) — St, Julien and 

 Maud S (432) — The Narragansett Pacers (432) — Pocahontas (432). 



CHAPTER IV. 



EUROPEAN HORSES. 



The Hunter (434) — The Hackney (434) — The Russian Horse (436) — The Austrian Horse (437) 



— The Holstein Horse (438) — The French Horse (438)— The Italian Horse (440)— The Races at 



Rome (440) — The Spanish Horse (440) — The Shetland Pony (441) — The Carriage Horse (443) — 



The Cart Horse (443) — The Percheron Horse (443), 



CHAPTER V. 

 THE WILD AND THE COMMON ASS. 

 The Wild Asses (445) — The Kulan or Dziggetai (445) — Their Speed (446) — Domestication 

 (446)— The Wild Ass of the Bible (447)— The African Wild Ass (448)— The Common Ass (448) 

 —Its Patience — Its Intelligence (449) — The Egyptian Ass (450). 



CHAPTER VI. 

 THE ZEBRAS. 

 The Zebras or Tiger-Horses (452) — The Quagga (452) — The Dauw, or Burchell's Zebra (453)— 

 Harris's Description of it (454) — The Zebra Proper (454) — Hunting the Zebra (455) — Cross- 

 Breeds (456) — The Mule (456) — The Hinny (456) — Instances of their Fertility (457) — Darwinism 



(457)- 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE TAPIRS. 



The Family Tapiridae (458)— The American Tapir (458)— Its Trunk (459)— Its Habits (459) — 



The Tapir as a Domestic Auimal (460) — A Tapir Hunt (461) — Peculiar Marks of the Young 



Tapir (461) — The Malay Tapir (462) — Its Trunk (462) — Its Color (462) — Discovery of the Animal 



(462) — Chinese Account (463) — The Pinchaque (463) — Baird's Tapir (463). 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 THE RHINOCEROS. 

 The Family Rhinocerotid» (464) — General Description (464) — The Horn — Peculiar Struc- 

 ture of the Horn (465) — Known to the Ancients (466) — Wood-cut by Albert Durer (466) — Arab 

 Superstitions (466) — Haunts of the Rhinoceros (466) — A Nocturnal Animal (467) — Its Food — 

 Its Habits (467)— Its Senses (468)— Its Fits of Rage (468)— Maternal Affection (469)— Its Friends 

 the Small Birds (469) — Captive Rhinoceroses (470) — Uses of its Hide (470). 



CHAPTER IX. 

 THE ASIATIC RHINOCEROSES. 

 The One-horned Rhinoceroses (470) — The Indian Rhinoceros (470)— Its Thick Hide (470) — 

 Mode of Hunting (473)— The Wara or Javanese Rhinoceros (473) — The Emperor Baber (474V— 



