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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 26, 1888. 



of an old field, where the mule is tied and Pills is given 

 his liberty. He disappears in the weeds, and five minutes 

 thereafter sets up a steady, persistent barking, but in a 

 soft, low tone. 



'"He's found em," says Gregory, and we push through 

 the weeds to the opposite side of the field, where we find 

 Pills sitting on his haunches, his eyes riveted on the top 

 of a small turkey oak, and barking steadily. A brief in- 

 spection of the tree reveals five quail among the branches, 

 two sitting low down, and three close together near the 

 top, all motionless as statues. 

 _ "Take de lowes' one fust," says Gregory, bringing his 

 singlebarrel to shoulder and firing as be speaks. He drops 

 one bird, I demolish another, and then cover the trio in 

 thetreetop, two of which fall totheshot,butthe third one 

 goes fluttering away badly wounded, and this starts the 

 balance of the covey. They begin to scatter away veiy 



which are plenty; and one particular fine chase through 

 the open pine woods is made in plain sight for some 

 two hundred yards. It results in the dog's fairly outfoot- 

 mg and picking up the rabbit, which he brings, kicking 

 and squealing, to his master, and delivers up with a look 

 of proud satisfaction. I would like to own that dog, I \ 

 could afford to take him to Pennsylvania. But his owner j 

 declines to sell at any reasonable figure, and, leaving 

 Gregory all the game save two plump quail, I make my 

 way to camp, with two hours of davlight to spare. 



And here, as I live, comes the dingy with the Skipper 

 and Joe. I am admonished to pack up lively, as it is 

 decided to start for the North on Saturday and the Skipper 

 wishes to spend a day investigating the mysteries of the 

 "Stone House," which, tradition says, was built more 

 than 200 years ago. I think tradition lies; but all the 

 same make haste to get my duffle on board the canoe, and, 



Gariacus toltecm, Brooke. Yucatan Deer. Mexico. 



Gariacus rufinus, (Bourcier et Pucheran) Brooke. Black-faced 

 Brochet. Mexico to Ecuador. 



Oervm canadensis, Erxeleben. Wapiti. American "Elk." Vir- 

 ginia, California and northward. 



Alces maclilis, (Linne) Gray. Moose (elk of Europeans). Northern 

 United States and northward. 



Banyifer tarandus, (Linne) Gray. Reindeer. Arctic North Amer- 

 ica. 



Bangifer tarandus grcenland.kus, (Kerr). Barren-ground Carihou. 

 Arctic America. 



Banglf&r tarandus caribou (Kerr). Woodland Caribou. North- 

 eastern North America. 



Family Antilocaprid^e. The Prong-horn Antelope. 

 AnWpeapra amerieana, 0rd. Prong-horn Antelope or Cabrit. 

 .Flams west of Missouri from Lower Rio Grande to Saskatche- 

 wan. 



Family Bovid^je. The Cattle. 

 Bison americanus, (Gmelin) Gray. American Buffalo. Plains he- 



tween the Rocky Mountains and Missouri River. 

 Ovibm moschatus, Blainville. Musk-ox. Arctic North America. 



THE COLLARED PECCARY (/). tajaQu). Adult Male; Drawn bt the Author ; About One-Seventh the Stze of Life. 



lively, but Gregory gets in one more shot at a laggard and 

 then they are gone, making straight for a dense hammock 

 100 rods distant. Pills behaves admirably. He is per- 

 fectly steady to shot and tree, does not chase, and when 

 the excitement is over proceeds to retrieve the birds in a 

 businesslike manner and without orders. He fixst brings 

 in the five dead quail, and then without a word from his 

 master starts off into the scrub after the wounded bird, 

 which it is evident he has marked down. He is back in 

 less than five minutes with his bird. 



"You've taught him to retrieve well," I said. 



"Neber learned him nothin' 'bout it," said Gregory; "he 

 jess tuk up do notion his ownse'f." 



Pills soon finds another covey, and this time I have a 

 fair chance to see him get in his work, which is simple 

 but effective to a degree. On striking the trail he roads 

 rapidly up to the birds, and as the first one rises he rushes 

 on them at top speed with a succession of short, shrill 

 yelps which sends the frightened covey into the nearest 

 trees, where they sit immovably watching the dog as 

 though fascinated. Then Pills squats on his haunches in 

 plain sight of his game and changes his tone to mild, 

 plaintive baying, remaining steady to tree and bark in 

 spite of shooting and tumbling birds, until the remaining 

 birds take flight, when he suddenly relapses into silence 

 and becomes absorbed in marking them down. It is all 

 very sagacious and shows, to my thinking, more of rea- 

 son* than instinct. 



We follow up the scattered covey and succeed in get- 

 ting a couple of stragglers, when, finding we have just 

 fourteen quail, I propose to quit. But Gregory, like your 

 "true" and "legitimate" sportsman, is intent on making 

 a "bag." 



I will shoot no more, however, and he reluctantly turns 

 his face homeward. We find the mule in disgrace 

 through getting a fore leg tangled in his halter and his 

 rope harness in a tangle of twists and knots past under- 

 standing. Gregory soothes and relieves him by the vigor- 

 ous applications of a club, after the manner of mule 

 drivers the world over, and we start for home, I trailing 

 along behind the cart, for I have been jolted and 

 bumped sufficiently over palmetto roots on the ' way 

 out. On the way home Pills, whose hunting blood is 

 fairly up, makes some sport by racing the cottontails. 



just as the sun gets behind the pines on the west side of 

 the bay, pick up the double-blade for a tiresome paddle 

 of six miles to the fish-factory. Two hours later I am in 

 the Stella's cabin smoking lazily, and with a pretty 

 decided notion that my camping on the east coast of 

 Florida has come to a sudden end. Nessmuk. 



<^tn\nl ^jjiistorg. 



THE PECCARY. 



With Introductory Notes on the Order Ungulata. 

 by r. w. shufeldt, m.d., c.m.z.s. 



HAVING carried my sketches of the United States 

 mammals through the Provisional List of the U. S. 

 National Museum to include the Cetaceans (see Forest 

 and Stream, Oct. 27, 1887), I will in the present contribu- 

 tion take up the next group dealt with in that List, which 

 we find to he the Order Ungulata, a group largely repre- 

 sented in the existing world's fauna, and which in our 

 country is fairly represented by at least one species of 

 peccary, some nine or ten species of deer and elk, an 

 antelope, less than half a dozen bovine species, and as we 

 pass into Mexico and Guatemala, by two species of tapir 

 and another peccary. Still pursuing the plan adopted in 

 the sketches already in former numbers of Forest and 

 Stream, I will here republish the Order Ungulata as we 

 find it in full in the List alluded to above. It stands as 

 follows: 



Order UNGULATA. Ungulates. 

 Subobdeb ARTIODACTYLA. 

 Family Dicotylid^e. The Peccaries, 

 jykotyles tajacu, (Linne) Sclater. Common Peccary. Arkansas to 

 Patagonia. 



Dicotijlcs lahiatus, (Cuvier). White-lipped Peccary. Guatemala to 

 Paraguay. 



Family Ckrvid.is. The Dews. 

 Cmiaeus macroUs, . (Say) Brooke, Mule Deer. Central North 

 America. 



Gariacus columhianus, (Rich.) Gray. Columbia Black- tailed Deer. 

 Pacific slope. 



Gariacus virainianus, (Boddeert) Brooke. Virginia Deer. Canada 

 to Panama. 



Ovis iwrntana, Cuvier. Bighorn: Mountain Sheep. Rocky Moun- 

 tain regions to Mexico. 



Oris m»ntarta dalli. Nelson. Ball's Mountain Sheep. Mountains 

 of Alaska and southward into British America. 



Mazama montana, (Ord.) Gill. Mountain Goat. Northern Rocky 

 Mountains of the United States and British America. 



Subobder PERISSODACTYLA. 

 Family Tapiridje. The Tapirs. 

 Elasmngnathus bairdii, Gill. Baii'd's Tapir. Mexico to Panama. 

 Masmognathus down*, Gill. Dow's Tapir. Guatemala to Costa 

 Rica. 



Next following we find the List presenting us with the 

 wonderfully extensive Order, the Rodentia, which I trust 

 may furnish material for future articles; but right now 

 let us turn our attention to some of the leading facts 

 science has brought to light, in comparatively recent 

 times, in reference to the history of the Ungulata; then 

 pass to a short sketch of the Peccary, the first species 

 which appears in the List accompanying this contribu- 

 tion. In the papers immediately following this one, and 

 before we enter upon the Rodentia, I trust, too, to touch 

 upon the life-histories of certain Cervidee, Antilocapridse, 

 and Bovidse enumerated above. 



During the early part of this century, systematic zoolo- 

 gists, guided by the knowledge then in their possession, 

 were quite unanimous in dividing the easily recognized 

 group of "hoofed mammals" into sections, designated as 

 the Artiodactyla and PerissodcCctyla — a grouping which 

 excluded such animals as the Hyrax and Elephants, and 

 decided that these latter were not especially related to the 

 true Ungulate types, but should be placed in separate 

 groups, which were duly created for their reception. In 

 recent years, however, the unceasing labors of the pale- 

 ontologists, both in our own country and abroad, have 

 brought to light the fossil remains of a vast host of ex- 

 tinct types, which careful study has shown to be the 

 ancestral and linking kin among not only modern peris- 

 sodactyline and artiodactyline ungulate species, with 

 Hyrax and the Proboscidea, but with other outlying fam- 

 ilies formerly thought to be distinct. So that we are at 

 present enabled to reconstruct this far more numerous 

 assemblage of forms, and by associating both the existing 

 representatives with those now extinct, we make our order 

 Ungulata include them all. Whereupon again passing 

 in review our knowledge of the structure of these animals, 



