have not
reverted to the wild type. De Blainville ('Osteographie,' p. 132) refers to
two skulls of domestic pigs sent from Patagonia by Al. d'Orbigny, and he
states that they have the occipital elevation of the wild European boar,
but that the head altogether is "plus courte et plus ramassee." He refers,
also, to the skin of a feral pig from North America, and says, "il
ressemble tout a fait a un petit sanglier, mais il est presque tout noir,
et peut-etre un peu plus ramasse dans ses formes."
[172] Gosse's 'Jamaica,' p. 386, with a quotation from Williamson's
'Oriental Field Sports.' Also Col. Hamilton Smith, in 'Naturalist's
Library,' vol. ix. p. 94.
[173] S. Sidney's edition of 'Youatt on the Pig,' 1860, pp. 7, 26, 27, 29,
30.
[174] 'Schweineschaedel,' s. 140.
[175] 'Die Fauna der Pfahlbauten,' 1861, s. 109, 149, 222. _See_ also
Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, in 'Mem. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat.,' tom. x. p. 172; and
his son Isidore, in 'Hist. Nat. Gen.,' tom. iii. p. 69. Vasey, in his
'Delineations of the Ox Tribe,' 1851, p. 127, says the zebu has four, and
the common ox five, sacral vertebrae. Mr. Hodgson found the ribs either
thirteen or fourteen in number; _see_ a note in 'Indian Field,' 1858, p.
62.
[176] 'The Indian Field,' 1858, p. 74, where Mr. Blyth gives his
authorities with respect to the feral humped cattle. Pickering, also, in
his 'Races of Man,' 1850, p. 274, notices the peculiar character of the
grunt-like voice of the humped cattle.
[177] Mr. H. E. Marquand, in 'The Times,' June 23rd, 1856.
[178] Vasey, 'Delineations of the Ox-Tribe,' p. 124. Brace's 'Hungary,'
1851, p. 94. The Hungarian cattle descend, according to Ruetimeyer ('Zahmen.
Europ. Rindes,' 1866, s. 13), from _Bos primigenius_.
[179] Moll and Gayot, 'La Connaissance Gen. du Boeuf,' Paris, 1860. Fig 82
is that of the Podolian breed.
[180] A translation appeared in three parts in the 'Annals and Mag. of Nat.
Hist.,' 2nd series, vol. iv., 1849.
[181] _See_, also, Ruetimeyer's 'Beitrage pal. Gesch. der Wiederkauer,'
Basel, 1865, s. 54.
[182] Pictet's 'Paleontologie,' tom. i. p. 365 (2nd edit.). With respect to
B. trochoceros, _see_ Ruetimeyer's 'Zahmen Europ. Rindes,' 1866, s. 26.
[183] Owen, 'British Fossil Mammals,' 1846, p. 510.
[184] 'British Pleistocene Mammalia,' by W. B. Dawkins and W. A. Sandford,
1866. p. xv.
[185] W. R. Wilde, 'An Essay on the Animal Remains, &c., Royal Irish
Academy,' 1860, p. 29. Also 'Proc. of R.
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