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4 FOREST AND STREAM. [Jan. 26, 1888. of an old field, where the mule is tied and Pills is given which are plenty; and one particular fine chase through Gariacus toltecm, Brooke. Yucatan Deer. Mexico. his liberty. disappears He in the weeds, and five minutes the open pine woods is made in plain sight for some Gariacus rufinus, (Bourcier et Pucheran) Brooke. Black-faced thereafter sets Brochet. Mexico to Ecuador. up a steady, persistent barking, but in a two hundred yards. It results in the dog's fairly outfoot- soft, low tone. Oervm canadensis, Erxeleben. Wapiti. American "Elk." Vir- mg and picking up the rabbit, which he brings, kicking ginia, California and northward. '"He's found em," says Gregory, and we push through and squealing, to his master, and delivers up with a look Alces maclilis, (Linne) Gray. Moose (elk of Europeans). Northern the weeds to the United States and northward. opposite side of the field, where we find of proud satisfaction. I would like to own that dog, I \ Banyifer Pills sitting on his haunches, his tarandus, (Linne) Gray. Reindeer. Arctic North Amer- eyes riveted on the top could afford to take him to Pennsylvania. But his owner ica. of a small turkey j oak, and barking steadily. A brief in- declines to sell at any reasonable figure, and, leaving Bangifer tarandus grcenland.kus, (Kerr). Barren-ground Carihou. spection of the tree reveals five quail among the branches, Gregory all the game save two Arctic America. plump quail, I make my Banglf&r tarandus two sitting low down, three close caribou (Kerr). Woodland Caribou. North- and together near the way to camp, with two hours of davlight to spare. eastern North America. top, all motionless as statues. And here, as I live, comes the dingy with the Skipper Family "Take de lowes' one fust," says bringing his Antilocaprid^e. The Prong-horn Antelope. _ Gregory, and Joe. I am admonished to pack up lively, as it is AnWpeapra amerieana, 0rd. Prong-horn singlebarrel to shoulder and firing as be speaks. He drops decided to start for the North on Saturday and the Skipper Antelope or Cabrit. one .Flams west of Missouri from Lower Rio Grande to Saskatche- bird, I demolish another, and then cover the trio in wishes to spend a day investigating the mysteries of the wan. thetreetop, two of which fall totheshot,butthe third one "Stone House," which, tradition says, was built more Family Bovid^je. The Cattle. goes fluttering Bison americanus, away badly wounded, and this starts the than 200 years ago. I think tradition lies; but all the (Gmelin) Gray. American Buffalo. Plains he- tween the Rocky Mountains and balance of the covey. They begin to scatter away veiy same make haste to get my duffle on board the canoe, Missouri River. and, Ovibm moschatus, Blainville. Musk-ox. Arctic North America. THE COLLARED PECCARY (/). tajaQu). Adult Male; Drawn bt the Author ; About One-Seventh the Stze of Life. lively, but Gregory gets in one more shot at a laggard and just as the sun gets behind the pines on the west side of Ovis iwrntana, Cuvier. Bighorn: Mountain Sheep. Rocky Moun- tain regions to Mexico. then they are gone, making straight for a dense hammock the bay, pick up the double-blade for a tiresome paddle Oris m»ntarta dalli. Nelson. Ball's Mountain Sheep. Mountains 100 rods distant. Pills behaves admirably. He is per- of six miles to the fish-factory. Two hours later I am in of Alaska and southward into British America. fectly steady to shot and tree, does not chase, and when the Stella's cabin smoking lazily, and with a pretty Mazama montana, (Ord.) Gill. Mountain Goat. Northern Rocky Mountains of United States and the excitement is over proceeds to retrieve the birds in a decided notion that my camping on the east coast of the British America. businesslike manner and without orders. He fixst brings Florida has come to a sudden end. Nessmuk. Subobder PERISSODACTYLA. in five quail, the dead and then without a word from his Family Tapiridje. The Tapirs. master starts off into the scrub after the wounded bird, Elasmngnathus bairdii, Gill. Baii'd's Tapir. Mexico to Panama. which it is evident he has marked down. He is back in Masmognathus down*, Gill. Dow's Tapir. Guatemala to Costa less than five minutes with his bird. <^tn\nl ^jjiistorg. Rica. "You've taught him to retrieve well," I said. Next following we find the List presenting us with the "Neber learned him nothin' 'bout it," said Gregory; "he THE PECCARY. wonderfully extensive Order, the Rodentia, which I trust jess tuk up do notion his ownse'f." may furnish material for future articles; but right now Pills soon finds another covey, and this time I have a With Introductory Notes on the Order Ungulata. let us turn our attention to some of the leading facts to see in his work, which is simple fair chance him get by r. w. shufeldt, m.d., c.m.z.s. science has brought to light, in comparatively recent but effective to a degree. On striking the trail he roads times, in reference to the history of the Ungulata; then rapidly up to the birds, and as the first one rises he rushes HAVING carried my sketches of the United States pass to a short sketch of the Peccary, the first species on them at top speed with a succession of short, shrill mammals through the Provisional List of the U. S. which appears in the List accompanying this contribu- yelps which sends the frightened covey into the nearest National Museum to include the Cetaceans (see Forest tion. In the papers immediately following this one, and trees, where they sit immovably watching the dog as and Stream, Oct. 27, 1887), I will in the present contribu- before we enter upon the Rodentia, I trust, too, to touch though fascinated. Then Pills squats on his haunches in tion take up the next group dealt with in that List, which upon the life-histories of certain Cervidee, Antilocapridse, plain sight of his game and changes his tone to mild, we find to he the Order Ungulata, a group largely repre- and Bovidse enumerated above. plaintive baying, remaining steady to tree and bark in sented in the existing world's fauna, and which in our During the early part of this century, systematic zoolo- spite of shooting and tumbling birds, until the remaining country is fairly represented by at least one species of gists, guided by the knowledge then in their possession, birds take flight, when he suddenly relapses into silence peccary, some nine or ten species of deer and elk, an were quite unanimous in dividing the easily recognized and becomes absorbed in marking them down. It is all antelope, less than half a dozen bovine species, and as we group of "hoofed mammals" into sections, designated as very sagacious and shows, to my thinking, more of rea- pass into Mexico and Guatemala, by two species of tapir the Artiodactyla and PerissodcCctyla—a grouping which son* than instinct. and another peccary. Still pursuing the plan adopted in excluded such animals as the Hyrax and Elephants, and We follow up the scattered covey and succeed in get- the sketches already in former numbers of Forest and decided that these latter were not especially related to the ting a couple of stragglers, when, finding we have just Stream, I will here republish the Order Ungulata as we true Ungulate types, but should be placed in separate fourteen quail, I propose to quit. But Gregory, like your find it in full in the List alluded to above. It stands as groups, which were duly created for their reception. In "true" and "legitimate" sportsman, is intent on making follows: recent years, however, the unceasing labors of the pale- a "bag." Order UNGULATA. Ungulates. ontologists, both in our own country and abroad, have I will shoot no more, however, and he reluctantly turns Subobdeb ARTIODACTYLA. brought to light the fossil remains of a vast host of ex- study has his face homeward. We find the mule in disgrace Family Dicotylid^e. The Peccaries, tinct types, which careful shown to be the linking kin among not only peris- through getting a fore leg tangled in his halter and his jykotyles tajacu, (Linne) Sclater. Common Peccary. Arkansas to ancestral and modern rope harness in a tangle of twists and knots past under- Patagonia. sodactyline and artiodactyline ungulate species, with standing. Gregory soothes and relieves him by the vigor- Dicotijlcs lahiatus, (Cuvier). White-lipped Peccary. Guatemala to Hyrax and the Proboscidea, but with other outlying fam- Paraguay. ilies thought to be distinct. are ous applications of a club, after the manner of mule Family Ckrvid.is. The Dews. formerly So that we at drivers the world over, and we start for home, I trailing present enabled to reconstruct this far more numerous Cmiaeus macroUs, . (Say) Brooke, Mule Deer. Central North along behind the cart, for I have been jolted and America. assemblage of forms, and by associating both the existing Gariacus columhianus, (Rich.) Gray. Columbia Black- tailed Deer. representatives with those now extinct, our order bumped sufficiently over palmetto roots on the ' way we make Pacific slope. Pills, is Ungulata include them all. Whereupon again passing out. On the way home whose hunting blood Gariacus virainianus, (Boddeert) Brooke. Virginia Deer. Canada fairly up, makes some sport by racing the cottontails. to Panama. in review our knowledge of the structure of these animals, — 8 Jan. 26, 1888.] FOREST AND STREAM. we find that we can still retain our old sections,the Arti- odactyla and Perissodactyla, as two clearly defined sub- orders of the Ungulata, and designate them as the Ungidata vera; while we throw all the other species, upon whose structure we are not nearly so well informed, into other sub-orders, and collectively term them the Subungulata, or in contradistinction to the first, the Ungulata polydactyla.