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 NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS, 



Horns and Hoofs; or, Chapters on Hoofed Animals. By K. 

 Lydekker. 8vo, pp. i-vii, 1-400, with 82 illustrations. 

 London : Horace Cox. 1893. 



This volume consists mainly of a reprint of articles con- 

 tributed to the natural-history columns of * The Field' during 

 the last two or three years, with one or two from other journals ; 

 but the author informs us in his Preface that, since their original 

 appearance, several of the chapters have been more or less recast, 

 in order to bring them up to the present state of zoological 

 knowledge, while they have been embellished by the addition of 

 a number of new illustrations. All the animals dealt with in the 

 work come under the designation of Big-game, but include only 

 certain groups of the order Ungulata. The reason of this 

 limitation we are unable to understand, nor is any explanation 

 given in the Preface for the omission of such highly important 

 species as the Wapiti, Black-tailed, Virginian, and Mule Deer, 

 Pronghorn Antelope, and Rocky Mountain Goat. The American 

 Moose is very cursorily referred to (pp. 321-322) under the head 

 of Elk in the chapter on Asiatic Deer, and the account given of 

 the Big-horn, Ovis canadensis, is wholly inadequate, notwith- 

 standing the two good illustrations of the head and skull of the 

 Kamschatkan race, Ovis nivicola, reproduced from Guillemard's 

 * Cruise of the Marchesa.' This omission of the North American 

 Ungulata, above mentioned, is a serious defect in a book which, 

 from its title, would naturally be supposed to be thoroughly 

 comprehensive. 



Even in the case of the American Bison, to which some six 

 or seven pages are devoted, we find little more than quotation 

 from Mr. Hornaday's recent book on this animal (Washington, 

 1889), while the much more important monograph by Mr. J. J. 

 Allen on 'American Bisons, living and extinct' (published with 

 twelve plates and a map in the ' Memoirs of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology at Harvard College') is not even so much 

 as mentioned. 



Leaving the North American species, then, out of con- 

 sideration, the groups dealt with are Wild Oxen, Wild Sheep, 

 Wild Goats, the Antelopes of Asia, African Antelopes, the Peer 



