. The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. FIG. 142. Heads of various British breeds of domestic cattle, showingvariations in shape of head and condition of horns: 1 Highland Scot;2, Irish Kerry; 3, Aberdeen Angus; 4, Hereford; 5, Jersey; 6, Long-horned Midland. (After Romanes.) DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 269 and Capra jemlaica of the Himalayas. The earliest pre-historic indications of tame goats come from the times ofthe Lake-dwellers. In the Bronze Age they were mammals that are represented by domestic races arethe camel, the elephant, the water buf
. The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. FIG. 142. Heads of various British breeds of domestic cattle, showingvariations in shape of head and condition of horns: 1 Highland Scot;2, Irish Kerry; 3, Aberdeen Angus; 4, Hereford; 5, Jersey; 6, Long-horned Midland. (After Romanes.) DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 269 and Capra jemlaica of the Himalayas. The earliest pre-historic indications of tame goats come from the times ofthe Lake-dwellers. In the Bronze Age they were mammals that are represented by domestic races arethe camel, the elephant, the water buffalo, the rabbit, theferret, the reindeer, the lama and alpaca, the guinea-pig,the mouse, the rat, etc. But excepting with the rabbit the. FIG. 143. White Hall Sultan, a Shorthorn prize bull. (After Plumb.,) domesticated forms of these animals are only wild speciestamed and reared under mans hand but not much modi-fied by breeding. There are several well-marked racesof domesticated rabbits all of which probably trace theirlineage back to a wild species native to Spain and South-ern France. Of birds there are domesticated races of doves, chickens,turkeys, ducks, geese, swans, pea-fowls, pheasants, canarybirds, ostriches, cormorants and others. Of these the dovesand chickens are represented by the most varieties. Brown,an English authority on domesticated birds, lists more than 270 THE ANIMALS AND MAN seventy races of chickens now living, thirteen races of ducks,ten of geese and eight of turkeys. Of pigeons there mustbe nearly as many domestic races as there are of yet all of them, with all their extraordinary variety ofcrests, and ruffs, and tails and plumage pattern, and alltheir various special manners such
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