Chapter II

PERISSODACTYLA--THE TAPIR AND RHINOCEROS FAMILIES.

Introductory Remarks on the Tapirs--Foot--Anatomical
Features--Skull--Compared with that of Hog--Skull of Asiatic
Tapir--Proboscis--Dentition--Species of Tapir--THE AMERICAN
TAPIR--Habits--Colour--Modes of Hunting--Docility--THE
HAIRY TAPIR--THE MALAYAN TAPIR--FOSSIL TAPIRS--THE
RHINOCEROSES--General Characteristics--Is it the Reèm of
the Bible?--Ludicrous Ideas respecting it--At Rome--First
Rhinoceroses in Europe--Skeleton--Skull--Horns--Curious
Dental Law--Fore and Hind Limbs--Dentition--AFRICAN
RHINOCEROSES--“WHITE” RHINOCEROS--OSWELL’S RHINOCEROS--BLACK
RHINOCEROS--KEITLOA--RHINOCEROS BICORNIS MINOR--Hunting--Sir
Samuel Baker’s Extraordinary Chase--Gordon Cumming’s Account
of the Characteristics and Habits of the Black and White
South African Rhinoceroses--Rhinoceros Birds--THE ASIATIC
RHINOCEROSES--Connection between Dentition and Horns--THE
INDIAN RHINOCEROS--An Inveterate Enemy of the Elephant--THE
JAVAN RHINOCEROS--THE SUMATRAN RHINOCEROS--THE HAIRY-EARED
RHINOCEROS--How a Specimen, “Begum,” was Captured--THE
FOSSIL RHINOCEROSES--The Extinct Families Palæotheridæ and
Macraucheniadæ 317

CHAPTER III.

ARTIODACTYLA--THE PIG OR HOG FAMILY.

Introductory Remarks on the Artiodactyla--Character of their
Feet--The Wanting Digit--Comparison of the Bones of the Fore
Feet of Representative Animals--Other Characters in the
Artiodactyla--Classification--SUIDÆ, OR HOG FAMILY--Groups
of the Family--Snout--Sense of Smell--Libels--Mention
in the Bible--Among the Jews--Range--Teeth--THE WILD
BOAR--General Features--Habits--Historical Mention--THE
INDIAN HOG--Habits--A Wild Boar Hunt--A Noble Foe--THE
DOMESTIC HOG--The “Irish Greyhound Pig”--Effects of
Domestication--THE SOLID-HOOFED BREED OF PIGS--Description
of the Bones of Foot--MASKED PIG--BUSH HOG--BABIRUSA--THE
WART HOGS--ÆLIAN’S WART HOG--THE ETHIOPIAN WART
HOG--PECCARIES--Habits--Dentition--Feet--Species--THE FOSSIL
HOGS 335