KUMIXATING ANIMALS. 
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long hair and fine wool are found mostly in the 
warmer but alpine districts of Asia. Of tlie Bo- 
vida; or Oxen, so important for food and labour, two 
are found in America, another in Africa; but the 
Asiatic continent appears to be their stronghold, and 
possesses several species, which have in their turn 
been subjected to the will and for the use of man. 
We shall now review the families separately, and 
enter more iit large into the peculiarities of form 
and structure which has been observed in each : 
and, first, 
