CHAPTER I.

PERISSODACTYLA--THE EQUIDÆ, OR HORSE FAMILY.

Order _UNGULATA_--Divisions--PERISSODACTYLA--Characteristics-- EQUIDÆ--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 Breed--Colour--Teeth--“The Mark”--The Foot--Skull--Disease from the Gad-fly--RACE-HORSE--TROTTING HORSE OF AMERICA--DRAY HORSE--SHETLAND PONY--ARAB AND BARB--PERSIAN HORSE--WILD HORSES IN AMERICA--Habits--Byron’s “Mazeppa”--Capture and Breaking in--WILD HORSES IN AUSTRALIA--THE ASS--Species--Stripes--Characteristics--MULE AND HINNY--WILD ASS OF TIBET--ONAGER--WILD ASS OF ABYSSINIA--ZEBRAS--BURCHELL’S ZEBRA--QUAGGA--FOSSIL EQUIDÆ--Distribution--HIPPARION 295