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which it changes from the axial direction of the long-bodied, 

 short-legged form (weasel, &c), and takes a direction more 

 or less approaching a right-angle to the long axis of the 

 spine, but with the slope of course always towards the hinder 

 end of the animal. 



The direction of the hair on the head of this great group 

 of hairy animals is very variable, and especially on the frontal 

 and nasal portions. Generally speaking there are here two 

 types — first, the more common arrangement which is shared, 

 as mentioned, by the majority of carnivores with elongated 

 heads and snouts, in which the hair slopes from a whorl in 

 the nasal region as a starting point, backward over the nasal 

 and frontal, and merges on the sides into the stream of hair 

 on the face and orbits, and upward into that of the upper 

 portion, of the head and back of the neck. This is repre- 

 sented by all deer, most antelopes, gazelles, sheep, goats, 

 coneys. 



The second type resembles more that described as 

 existing among the great cats, e.g., lion and leopard and 

 domestic cats, in which at some point or other in the frontal 

 region a whorl, or radiating diverging point, is found, and 

 here a parting of the streams of the forehead and snout is 

 found, the latter passing downward to the muzzle, and the 

 former branching off upwards in a certain varying distance, 

 and externally. This is represented by such familiar animals 

 as the horse, ass, ox, and in horses, as we know them now, 

 this parting point is marked very generally by a patch of white 

 known as a star or " blaze." 



In regard to this group of animals, which show the 

 second type of slope on the frontal and nasal region, one 

 should remember that the form of head they present is, as 

 a rule, thicker and shorter than those which show the first 

 type, and they also very usually hold their head more 

 pointing towards the ground than the former group, which 

 hold their snout more horizontal. A rule like this has, of 

 course, a good many exceptions. 



