. Zoology : for students and general readers . Zoology. 604 ZOOLOaT. the horse in the Orient has five, and in the west (Africa) six lumbar vertebra ; in Arabia both forms occur ; in the horse with but five lumbar vertebra the shape of the skull is also different. The Ilemqjpus, the tar-jMU and muzir of Tartary, as well as the white, shaggy horse of the elevated plains of Pamir in central Asia which is often regarded as the original stock, may be a race which has returned to a wild state, since partly wild horses occur in Syria, on the Don, and live in great herds on the llanos and pampas of So
. Zoology : for students and general readers . Zoology. 604 ZOOLOaT. the horse in the Orient has five, and in the west (Africa) six lumbar vertebra ; in Arabia both forms occur ; in the horse with but five lumbar vertebra the shape of the skull is also different. The Ilemqjpus, the tar-jMU and muzir of Tartary, as well as the white, shaggy horse of the elevated plains of Pamir in central Asia which is often regarded as the original stock, may be a race which has returned to a wild state, since partly wild horses occur in Syria, on the Don, and live in great herds on the llanos and pampas of South America. There are two primitive races of horses, the Oriental and Western. To the first belong three types : the Arabian, with. Fif;. 523.—Stomach of a ruminant (sheep), ehowint; the four compartments ; a, oeso- phagus ; £», paunch ; c, honeycomb or reticulum ; d, liber psalterium or manyplies ; e, true digestive stomacii; /, beginning of the intestine.—After Owen. the Berber, Andalusian, Neapolitan ; and in England the blood horse ; the Nizaischau type of the Deccan, India, to which belong the Persian, Turkestan, Turkish horses, and the Tartarian. The western races comprise the Frieseland, to which belong the Brabant, Holstein, Mecklenburg, and the English farm-horse, and among others the Percheron horse, of France. Ponies are dwarf horses produced in cool, mountanous tireas, such as the Shethind Islands. The wild ass [Equus onager Brisson) ranges from the Indus to Meso- potamia. Equus hemionus Pallas, the Dschiggetai or Kiang, goes in herds in central Asia and Mongolia. The hinny and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring), 1839-1905. New York : Henry Holt
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