CONTENTS OF VOLUME TWO. 



SIRENIA. 



THE SEA COWS. 

 The Order Sirenia (397) — Mermaids (397) — The Family Manatidae (398) — The Manatees of 

 America (399) — Their Voracity and Laziness (399) — Modes of Capture (399) — Tame Specimens 

 (399) — The Florida Manatee (400) — The African Lamantin (400) — The Eastern Dugong (400) — 

 The Australian Dugong (401) — The Northern Sea Cows (401)— Steller's Description (401) — 

 Extinct since 1768 (403). 



UNGULATA. 



CHAPTER I. 

 HOOFED ANIMALS. 

 The Order Ungulata (407) — The Numerous Families (407) — The Ruminants (407) — Their 

 Peculiar Stomach (408) — Horns (408) — Antlers (408) — Extinct Species (408) — The Original Horse 

 Protohippus (409) — Gradual Development (409) — The Family Equidse ((409) — The Genus Equus 

 (409) — The Horse (410) — The Tarpan or Wild Horse of Tartary (410)— The Mustang or Wild 

 Horse of America (411). 



CHAPTER II. 

 THE ARAB AND THE BARB. 

 Early Domestication of the Horse (416) — The Horse in Egypt (416) — Assyria — Judaea (416) — 

 Greece— Persia (417)— Bits and Stirrups (417)— Chariot Races (417) — The Arab Horse (418)— 

 Exaggerated Pedigrees (419) — The Best Arabs (419I — Their Training (419)— Attachment of the 

 Arab for his Mare (420)— Speed and Endurance (421)— The Barb (422)— The Same Horse as the 

 Arab (422)— Abd-el-Kader on the Horse (422). 



