. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. a Antelope of the steppes of Southern Russia, marked by very ex-panded and somewhat produced nostrils, and having short upright horns ;and the true Antelopes, by the Chamois of European snowy mountains,whose senses are most acute, and whose leaps and surefootedness areastonishing. It feeds in flocks and is very difficult to approach, a sentinelbeing always appointed. European
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. a Antelope of the steppes of Southern Russia, marked by very ex-panded and somewhat produced nostrils, and having short upright horns ;and the true Antelopes, by the Chamois of European snowy mountains,whose senses are most acute, and whose leaps and surefootedness areastonishing. It feeds in flocks and is very difficult to approach, a sentinelbeing always appointed. European Oxen, which have some wild forms like the Chillinghamcattle, differ from the Bisons, to which group the Aurochs (11) belongs, bythe latter having a mane and a beard. They are strictly protected in theLithuanian and South Russian forests. Csesar describes them as veryfierce in his time, sparing neither man nor beast. The Buffalo, found inSouth Europe, North Africa, and India, has triangular flattened horns. The Elk, or Moose, (9) of the northern forests, is the largest existingkind of deer, being in some cases eight feet high. The antlers of themale, shed annually and reproduced, are broad and palm-like. It is the. 17. IBEX. 18. CHAMOIS. 19. MARMOT. shyest of all the deer, and exceedingly quick ol scent; so that hunting themoose is a most exciting sport. The Red and Fallow Deer, and the Roe- I 232 EUROPEAN ANIMALS. buck of our own country and many parts of Europe, are much smallerand have highly branched antlers. The Reindeer of the Arctic regionsis remarkable in that both males and females have antlers. Its hoofis singularly broad and deeply cleft, so as to spread well over the ice andsnow. It is very hardy, and able to go without food for several dayswithout injury. As a domestic animal, it is invaluable to the Laplander,being able to drag a sledge eighty miles a day for days together, with-out apparent fatigue. They migrate continually in search of food intheir long winter,
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