This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...these two great groups (1) the hollow-horned and (2) the antler-bearing animals, are to be classed three small a nd exceptional groups, only one of which has horns of any kind. The first of these three groups consists only of the giraffe, a creature now confined to the Ethiopian region of the earth's surface, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...these two great groups (1) the hollow-horned and (2) the antler-bearing animals, are to be classed three small a nd exceptional groups, only one of which has horns of any kind. The first of these three groups consists only of the giraffe, a creature now confined to the Ethiopian region of the earth's surface, though in Pliocene times it existed in Greece, Persia, India, and China. It has a pair of short, bony processes on the head, coated with hairy skin, and something like Fig. 53. THE CHEVROTAIN. the pedicles of deer, and there is also a median bony protrusion between the eyes, like a low, blunt, third kind of horn. Another of the three exceptional groups above mentioned is that composed of the chevrotains, which are the smallest of all ruminating animals. Three species of these come from the Malay Peninsula, another from Ceylon, while a fifth and larger kind is found on the banks of streams in western Africa. These chevrotains are very often called musk deer, a most unfortunate mistake, as they have no special affinity whatever with the true musk deer. The last group of ruminating animals consists of the camels and the llamas, whereof the former are Asiatic, while the latter are now confined to the western side of South America. The zoological position of the bison thus appears to be situated near one end of a vast series of ruminating animals, at the opposite end of which the camel has its place. These may'be represented in tabular form as follows: Camels and llamas Chevrotains Ruminants-Giraffes 1 Antelopes Deer Goats I Hollow-horned I Sheep / True oxen 'ruminants 1 Musk ox Gaur group J Bovine 1 True l, uff;i 'animals loes The yak Bisons But the great group of ruminants, considered as a whole, forms one section of a yet larger group of...
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