CONTENTS, XV 



* CxiAPTER XXVII, 



WILD HORSES. 



Wild Horses in Australia and America — Tarpans — Piejevalsky's Hor&e 



272-273 



♦ CHAPTER XXVIIL 



ASSES. 



Differences between the Ass and the Horse — Hybrids between the 

 Horse and Ass — Varieties of Asses — The Domestic and Abyssinian 

 Wild Ass — The Onager — The Kiang — The Mountain Zebra — 

 Burchell's Zebra — Chapman's Zebra — The Grevy or Somaliland 

 Zebia — The Quagga — Points of the Ass .... 274-285 



* v^Jtixxir i iiiJx. ^J\.i^« 

 EVOLUTION OF THE HORSE. 



Ancestry of the Horse — Immediate Ancestors of the Horse — Conditions 

 which modified the Form of the Horse — Points of Speed and 

 Strength in the Fossil Horse — The Horse of the Future . 286-304 



r'tj A T>'T'T?I> "VVV 



Photographing horses ....... 305-306 



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 v^XlAJr 1 JtLJtS. A.A.AJ.. 



Proportions of the horse . 307-309 



CHAPTER XXXI L 

 The painter's horse . . . . . .310-317 



