Chapter I: Artiodactyla--Ruminantia

BOVIDÆ--SHEEP, GOATS, AND GAZELLES. PAGE

Ruminantia--Chewing the Cud--Metaphorical Expression--The
Complicated Stomach: Paunch, Honey-comb Bag, Manyplies,
Reed--Order of Events in Rumination--Feet and
Dentition of Ruminants--Brain--Classification--HORNED
RUMINANTS--Divided into two Groups--Difference
between them--BOVIDÆ--Horns--Aberrant Members--SHEEP
AND GOATS--General Characteristics--Sheep of
South-Western Asia--Merino Sheep--Breeds of Great
Britain--Dishley, or Improved Leicesters--Mr. Bakewell’s
Description--Southdowns, Cheviots, Welsh, and other
British Breeds--Table of the Importation of Colonial
and Foreign Wool into the United Kingdom--MARCO POLO’S
SHEEP--OORIAL--SHAPOO--MOUFLON--AMMON--BURHEL--AMERICAN
ARGALI--WILD SHEEP OF BARBARY--THE GOAT--Compared with
the Sheep--Descent--Cashmere Goat--IBEXES--PASENG--Their
remarkable Horns--Old Theories as to the Use of
the Horns--MARKHOOR--TAHR--GAZELLES--General
Characteristics--Sir Victor Brooke’s Classification--THE
GAZELLE--Appearance--Habits--ARABIAN GAZELLE--PERSIAN
GAZELLE--SOEMMERRING’S GAZELLE--GRANT’S
GAZELLE--SPRINGBOK--SAÏGA--CHIRU--THE PALLAH, OR IMPALLA--THE
INDIAN ANTELOPE, OR BLACK BUCK 1

CHAPTER II.

ARTIODACTYLA--RUMINANTIA:

BOVIDÆ: (_continued_)--ANTELOPES.

THE STEINBOKS: KLIPSPRINGER, OUREBI, STEINBOK, GRYSBOK,
MADOQUA--THE BUSH-BUCKS--Appearance--Distinctive
Marks--THE FOUR-HORNED ANTELOPES--Peculiarity in
the Chikarah--THE WATER ANTELOPES: NAGOR, REITBOK,
LECHÈ, AEQUITOON, SING-SING, WATER-BUCK, POKU,
REH-BOK--THE ELAND--Beef--Appearance--Captain
Cornwallis Harris’ Description--Hunting--Scarcity--THE
KOODOO--Appearance--King of Antelopes--ANGAS’ HARNESSED
ANTELOPE--THE HARNESSED ANTELOPES: GUIB--BUSH BUCK, OR
UKOUKA--Appearance--Pluck--THE BOVINE ANTELOPES--THE
BUBALINE--HARTEBEEST--BLESBOK--BONTEBOK--SASSABY--THE
GNU--Grotesque Appearance--Habits--BRINDLED
GNU--THE CAPRINE ANTELOPES--SEROW--Ungainly
Habits--GORAL--CAMBING-OUTAN--TAKIN--MAZAMA--THE
CHAMOIS--Distribution--Appearance--Voice--Hunted--THE
ORYXES--BLAUBOK--SABLE ANTELOPE--BAKER’S
ANTELOPE--ORYX--BEISA--BEATRIX--GEMSBOK--ADDAX 17