GUIDE 



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GREAT GAME ANIMALS. 



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With the exception of the large Carnivora, such as lions, tigers, 

 leopards, bears, and wolves, all the animals coming under the 

 designation of " Great Game " are included in the group or 

 "order" of Hoofed Mammals, or Ungulata. Of these animals 

 the collection exhibited in the galleries of the Museum is 

 remarkably fine and, in fact, unique. Although most of the 

 members of the group are of considerable or large dimensions, a 

 certain number are comparatively small. It will, however, be 

 obvious that the entire group must come within the scope of the 

 present guide. 



As a whole, the Ungulata or Hoofed Mammals are specially 

 adapted for a life on the ground and, in the main, to subsist on 

 vegetable food, although a few are mixed feeders. In accordance 

 with the needs of such a diet, their molar, or cheek, teeth have 

 broad crowns, the summits of which carry tubercles or ridges well 

 suited for crushing and grinding vegetable substances. Their 

 feet are protected in some cases with blunt, broad nails, but in the 

 greater number of species with hoofs, which more or less completely 

 enclose the terminal joints of the toes on which they mainly or 

 entirely walk. 



The large bodily size of so many of the members of this 

 order renders it very difficult to arrange them all in their proper 



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