. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. 232 Animal Life different forms and habits of their possessors, and when thus considered they furnish marked indications as to certain very constant muscular actions of an animal's life, and especially those which subserve locomotion; indeed, in another account which 1 have given of them, I ventured to call certain of them " animal pedometers," because of their close connection with the range and constancy of the locomotive lives of animals. They are found chiefly among ungulates, and of these the domestic horse is
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. 232 Animal Life different forms and habits of their possessors, and when thus considered they furnish marked indications as to certain very constant muscular actions of an animal's life, and especially those which subserve locomotion; indeed, in another account which 1 have given of them, I ventured to call certain of them " animal pedometers," because of their close connection with the range and constancy of the locomotive lives of animals. They are found chiefly among ungulates, and of these the domestic horse is in the proud position of exhibiting a greater number of these registers of locomotive activity than any other animal, wild or domesticated. A horse displays on its coat constantly three and very commonly five more of these whorls, featherings and crests. In this case, as in others, the greater includes the less, and no animal is to be found carrying about such badges on its coat which have not their corresponding arrangement on the skin of a domestic horse. So, for a type-study of this part of our subject, the friend and servant of man is most valuable. He is to us almost as useful, in our humble matters, as the lancelet of revered memory to the zoological teacher in his class-room. The curious fact that the horse possesses so many of these phenomena would require from the uncompromising selectionist some highly transcendental explanations, if indeed he thought this small waste-land of the territory of science worth claiming. But let us once adopt the working hypothesis that the facts in question are produced by very-often-repeated muscular movements, and soon we find the observed phenomena fall into line, and order takes the place of chaos. The domestic horse, it must always be remembered, is essentially a locomotive, though not made of iron, steel and brass. Other wild ungulates, especially other Equidse, may be as fleet of foot; indeed the kiang and onager are said to outpa
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