. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. ^^'!?r'^T ORDER UNGULATA (HOOFED QUADRUPEDS). CHAPTER I. PERISSODACTYLA—THE , OR HORSE FAMILY. Order UNGULATA — Divisions — PERISSODACTYLA — Characteristics—Equid* — Species — Descent — First Domestic Horses in Europe—Used for Food- Mention of the Horse in the Bible—War-Chariots—the Horse among the Greeks and Romans—in Britain—Attempts to Improve the Breeil—Colour—Teeth—" The Mark "—the Foot—Skull—Disease from the Gad-fly—Eace-Horse—Tkotting-Horse ok Asierica-Drav Horse—Shetland Pont—Arab and Bare- Persian Horse—Wild Horse
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. ^^'!?r'^T ORDER UNGULATA (HOOFED QUADRUPEDS). CHAPTER I. PERISSODACTYLA—THE , OR HORSE FAMILY. Order UNGULATA — Divisions — PERISSODACTYLA — Characteristics—Equid* — Species — Descent — First Domestic Horses in Europe—Used for Food- Mention of the Horse in the Bible—War-Chariots—the Horse among the Greeks and Romans—in Britain—Attempts to Improve the Breeil—Colour—Teeth—" The Mark "—the Foot—Skull—Disease from the Gad-fly—Eace-Horse—Tkotting-Horse ok Asierica-Drav Horse—Shetland Pont—Arab and Bare- Persian Horse—Wild Horses in America—Habits—Byrons ^' Mazeppa "—Capture and Breaking in—Wild Horses IN Australia-The Ass—Species -Stripes—Characteristics-Mile and Hinny—Wild Ass of Tibet—Onager- Wild Ass OF Abyssinia—Zebras—Bi'RCHELl's Zebra—Qcagga—Fossil —Distribution—Hipparion. The hoofed quadrupeds are so called because they possess hoofs, from which fact the order Ungulata takes its name,* and they include animals of widely different appearance, such as the Horse, Rhinoceros, Gii-affe, Camel, and the like. They are classified into two sub-orders, according to the odd or even number of toes, those having an odd number on the hind foot being termed the PerissodactyIa,t such as the Horse, Tapii-, and Rhinoceros ; and the hi,* or animals with an even number of toes on their liind feet, such as the Pig, Hippopotami is. S1h,|,. (»x, Deer, and the like. All the animals belonging to the order feed upon vegetables, with exceiition of the Pig and Peccary, which are omnivorous; and none of them are provided with sharp-edged cutting back teeth, adapted for dividing flesh, such as are found in the Carnivora—Lions, Tigers, "Wolves, and Hywnas. The odd-toed Ungulates come first. * SUB-ORDER PERISSODACTYLA. The odd-toed animals consist of three livmg families—(1) The Equida;, or Horses; (2) the Tapii
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