CLASS MAMMALS: OKDER UNGULATA. 75 



Mg. lis. 



Sue babiroussa, BabirouBEsa Hog. 



herds which stretch 

 out for miles in their 

 destructive migra- 

 tions. They resem- 

 ble pigs, but have 

 slender tusks capable 

 of inflicting terrible 

 wounds. 



Equidae. — The 

 Horse family have a 

 single hoof* to each 

 foot, with meta- 

 carpals elongated so 

 as to compel them 

 to carry the heel 

 (c) high up from 

 the ground. Strictly 

 herbivorous with up- 

 per and lower incis- 

 ors, they seem design- 

 ed to crop after the 



Fig. lilt. 



Dicotples UyrgyMus, Peccary. 



others enccessively take its place, so that, if skillfully managed by the hunter, the 

 whole number may be captured. 



* The earlier fossil species had five, later ones four, and still later three toes, thQ 

 indications of two suppressed, called splint bones, being still seen. 



