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Extinct Species—Sumatran Species—African Rhinoceroses—Common African Species 
—Size of Horns—Habits—Hunting—Burchett's Rhinoceros—Holmwood’s Rhinoceros 
—Extinct Rhinoceroses—-The Horse-Tribe ( Equidce )—Characteristics—Specialisation— 
Equus —Nomenclature of Limbs—Indications of Age—The Horse—Its Distribution— 
Tarpan—Prejevalski’s Horse—Domestication—In America—In Australia—Barbs and 
Arabs—Arab—Levant and Persian Horses—English Race-Horse—Hunters, etc.— 
Leaping Powers—American Trotter—Shetland, and other Ponies—Cart-Horses— 
Shire-Horse—Clydesdale—Suffolk Punch—Foreign Breeds—The Zebras—True Zebra 
—Burchett's Zebra—Grevy’s Zebra—Quagga—The Asses—Asiatic Wild Ass—Varieties, 
Distribution, and Habits—African Wild Ass—Domestic Ass—Mule—Fossil Horses— 
Other Extinct Odd-Toed Ungulates—Ancestry of the Horse—Palseotheres and Lophio- 
ctons—Titanotheres and Chalicotheres—Palseosyops, ..... 
CHAPTER XXVII.—Ungulates,— concluded. 
Hyraces, Elephants, etc.—C haracters of Foot in the Elephants and their Allies—The Hyraces 
(Hyracoidea )—Characters of the Procaviidce —Distribution—Abyssinian Hyraces— 
Cape Hyrax—Syrian Hyrax—Tree-Hyraces—Elephants ( Proboscidea )—Characters of 
the Elephantidoe —The Skull and Teeth—-Habits—Indian Elephant—Distribution— 
Habits—Breeding—-Elephant - Shooting—-Modes of Capture—Value and Uses of 
Elephants—The Mammoth—The African Elephant—Distribution—Habits—Hunting 
—Mode of Capture—Extinct Elephants—Sutledje Elephant—-Narbada Elephant— 
Straight-Tusked Elephant—Pigmy Species—-Southern Elephant—Stegodont Elephants 
—The Mastodons—The Dinothere—Short-Footed Ungulates (Amhlypoda )—The Macrau- 
chenia and its Allies ( Litopterna )—The Astrapotheres and their Kin ( Astrapothcria )— 
The Toxodonts ( Toxodontia ), ........ 
CHAPTER XXVIII.—Manatis and Dugongs,—O rder Sirenia. 
Characteristics of the Group.—M ode of Life—Distribution—Classification—Manatis 
( Manatus )—Distribution and Number of Species—Habits—The Dugong (. Ealicore )— 
Distribution—Habits—Northern Sea-Cow ( Ehytina )—Distribution and Habits— 
Extermination—Tertiary Sirenians, ....... 
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