4 HOOFED ANIMALS 
FAMILIES GROUPS EXAMPLES 
ANTELOPE Fam- | one Homan 
ILy, OR ANTI-; -°°° °° ; : 
Antelope... ...... Antilocapra americana. 
LOCAPRIDAE... | 
ee Elk, or Wapiti. ....Cervus canadensis. 
in) White-Tailed Deer ..Odocoileus virginianus. 
Horned Daariins heen 
Crowns Mule Deer S cestietiks ~ decent ocotleus hemionus. 
Derr FamIty, ’ | Black-Tailed Deer . .Odocoileus columbianus. 
oR CERVIDAE Barren-Ground 
Flat- : Randi s 
ee Caribou. .. vanes angifer arcticus. 
Woodland Caribou. . Rangifer caribou. 
Groups. ; 
Moose. ....  ....Alces americanus. 
Peccary Fami- 
Ly, OR TAYAS-/7......... Collared Peccary.... Tayassu tajacu. 
SUIDAE . 
Tante Fase | late: wees Dow’s Tapir.. ..... Tapirus dowt. 
oR TAPIRIDAE 
THE CATTLE AND SHEEP FAMILY 
Bo'vi-dae 
GENERAL CHARACTERS.—The Cattle Family of the world 
contains a grand array of large animals, such as the wild 
cattle, bison, buffalo, musk-ox, mountain sheep, ibex and 
wild goats. There are about fifty species in all, scattered 
over all continents save South America and Australia. All 
the members of this Family have divided hoofs and simple 
horns (7. e., not branching) consisting of a hollow sheath grow- 
ing over a pointed core of very porous bone. The horns grow 
until the animal reaches old age, and are never shed. If 
knocked off by accident, the new horn material presently 
covers the horn core, but never succeeds in forming a perfect 
weapon like the original. Such a growth is called a “‘crum- 
pled”? horn. The members of this Family eat vegetable food, 
preferably grass and herbage, and have no upper front teeth. 
