VI CONTENTS. 



THE HORSE — DAPPLING — DARK STRIPES ON THE SPINE, LEGS, 

 SHOULDERS, AND FOREHEAD DUN-COLOURED HORSES MOST FRE- 

 QUENTLY STRIPED — STRIPES PROBABLY DUE TO REYERSION TO THE 

 PRIMITIVE STATE OF THE HORSE. 



A.SSES. BREEDS OF— COLOUR OF LEG AND SHOULDER-STRIPES 



SHOULDER-STRIPES SOMETIMES ABSENT, SOMETIMES FORKED. 



Pages 51-67 

 CHAPTEE III. 



PIGS — CATTLE — SHEEP — GOATS. 



PIGrS BELONG TO TWO DISTINCT TYPES, SUS SCROFA AND INDICUS 



TORFSCHWEIN JAPAN PIGS — FERTILITY OF CROSSED PIGS CHANGES 



IN THE SKULL OF THE HIGHLY CULTIVATED RACES CONVERGENCE 



OF CHARACTER — GESTATION— SOLID-HOOFED SWINE— CURIOUS AP- 

 PENDAGES TO THE JAWS — DECREASE IN SIZE OF THE TUSKS — 



YOUNG PIGS LONGITUDINALLY STRIPED FERAL PIGS— CROSSED 



BREEDS. 



CATTLE. — ZEBU A DISTINCT SPECIES — EUROPEAN CATTLE PROBABLY 

 DESCENDED FROM THREE WILD FORMS ALL THE RACES NOW- 

 FERTILE TOGETHER — BRITISH PARK CATTLE — ON THE COLOUR OF 

 THE ABORIGINAL SPECIES — CONSTITUTIONAL DIFFERENCES — SOUTH 

 AFRICAN RACES — SOUTH AMERICAN RACES — NIATA CATTLE — ORIGIN 

 OF THE VARIOUS RACES OF CATTLE. 



SHEEP. REMARKABLE RACES OF — VARIATIONS ATTACHED TO THE 



MALE SEX ADAPTATIONS TO VARIOUS CONDITIONS — GESTATION OF 



CHANGES IN THE WOOL SEMI-MONSTROUS BREEDS. 



GOATS.— REMARKABLE VARIATIONS OF 68-106 



CHAPTER IT. 



DOMESTIC RABBITS. 



DOMESTIC RABBITS DESCENDED FROM THE COMMON WILD RABBIT — 



ANCIENT DOMESTICATION ANCIENT SELECTION — LARGE LOP-EARED 



RABBITS VARIOUS BREEDS — FLUCTUATING CHARACTERS — ORIGIN 



OF THE HIMALAYAN BREED — CURIOUS CASE OF INHERITANCE — 

 FERAL RABBITS IN JAMAICA AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS — PORTO 

 SASTO FERAL RABBITS — OSTEOLOGICAL CHARACTERS SKULL-- 



