Chapter III: Artiodactyla--Ruminantia

BOVIDÆ (_concluded_)--OXEN, PRONGHORN ANTELOPE, MUSK [DEER],
AND GIRAFFE.

THE NYL-GHAU--Description--Habits--THE MUSK OX--Difficulties
in associating it--Distribution--Habits--THE
OX--Chillingham Wild Cattle--Their Habits--Domestic
Cattle--The Collings, Booth, and Bates Strains--American
Breeding--Shorthorns, and other Breeds--Hungarian
Oxen--Zebu--Gour--Gayal--Curious mode of Capturing
Gayals--Banting--THE BISONS--Description--European Bison,
or Aurochs--Almost extinct--Cæsar’s Description of
it--American Bison--Distribution--Mythical Notions regarding
it--Their Ferocity and Stupidity--“Buffalo” Flesh--THE
YAK--Habits--THE BUFFALOES--Varieties--Description--Fight
between two Bulls--THE ANOA--THE PRONGHORN
ANTELOPE--Peculiarity as to its Horns and Skull--Professor
Baird’s and Mr. Bartlett’s Independent Discovery of
the Annual Shedding of the Horns--Habits--Peculiarity
about its Feet--Colour--Difficulties as to its
Position--THE MUSK [DEER]--Its Perfume--Where is it to be
placed?--Description--Habits--Hunters for the Perfume--Their
Sufferings--THE GIRAFFE--Peculiarities--Skull processes--Its
Neck--Habitat--Running power--Habits--Hunting 29