Even the comparatively scanty Eocene fauna yields examples of the orders Cheiroptera, Insectivora, Rodentia, and Perissodactyla; of Artiodactyla under both the Ruminant and the Porcine modifications; of Caranivora, Cetacea, and Marsupialia.

As the process of digestion in carnivorous animals is extremely simple, these organs are found to be remarkably short, seldom exceeding the length of the animal's body; while, where digestion is more difficult, from the unassimilating nature of the aliment, as in the ruminant order, the alimentary canal, as is the case with the sheep, is twenty-seven times the length of the body.

The digestive organ in all ruminant animals consists of four stomachs, or, rather, a capacious pouch, divided by doorways and valves into four compartments, called, in their order of position, the Paunch, the Reticulum, the Omasum, and the Abomasum.

The temperate regions of the whole world might be made to yield specimens of the noble ruminant, valuable either for their individual beauty, or for their availability to gastronomic purposes.

Travellers and sportsmen say that the male eland is unapproached in the quality of his flesh by any ruminant in South Africa; that it grows to an enormous size, and lays on fat with as great facility as a true short-horn; while in texture and flavour it is infinitely superior.

(2) The heart of a deer, and indeed of all ruminant animals, lies close against the chest walls and is easily reached and wounded.

CHAPTER XVIII Man's perfidy To Archibald Rushford, sitting ruminant in his room, staring absently out at the dunes and the sea, his paper forgotten, there entered presently Susiea rather subdued Susie, as he noted from the corner of his eyewho drew up a chair very close to his and sat down and propped her chin in her hands and looked up at him.

Monona, who had previously hidden a cooky in her frock, now remembered it and crunched sidewise, the eyes ruminant.

The stomach is always more or less complex; at its extreme reaching the ruminant type with four compartments, in association with which is a caecum reduced in size and simple in form.

The non-ruminant artiodactyls need not detain us long.

All non-ruminant ungulates have from four to six incisors in the upper jaw; the canines are present, and sometimes, as in the wart hogs, reach an extraordinary size.

Article V. The term "fair chase" shall not be held to include killing bear or cougar in traps, nor "fire hunting," nor "crusting" moose, elk or deer in deep snow, nor "calling" moose, nor killing deer by any other method than fair stalking or still-hunting, nor killing game from a boat while it is swimming in the water, nor killing the female or young of any ruminant, except the female of white goat or of musk-ox.

Article X. The use of steel traps; the making of "large bags"; the killing of game while swimming in water, or helpless in deep snow; and the killing of the females of any species of ruminant (except the musk-ox or white goat), shall be deemed offenses.

He who holds a professorship may be said to receive his food in the stall; and this is the best way with ruminant animals.

" "I was just thinking," said the Bonnie Lassie in ruminant accents, "how nice it must be to look back on a long life of unspotted correctness with not an item in it to be ashamed of.

You could not imagine him, like the yellow-eyed ruminant next to him, sitting and waiting ruthlessly for things to happen.

" And you sit ruminant and take no action, But daylong watch the aeroplanes at play, Or contemplate with secret satisfaction Your fellow-men proceeding towards the fray; Your sole solicitude when men report There is a shovel short, Or, numbering jealously your rusty store, Some mouldering rocket, some wet bomb you miss That was reserved for some ensuing war,

They do not suffer from an ennui, which society can remove, because their coarse feeding and their ruminant habits make them somewhat stolid.

He had lighted his pipe by this time, and was smoking and staring at the fire with his usual stolid airmeditative, it might be, or only ruminant, like one of his own cattle.

BOEUF, m., animal ruminant et à cornes.

She was too ruminant, too tranquil.

Across the river, and extending several miles above and below this grove, was the salt plainan alkali desert which no wild animal, ruminant or carnivorous, would attempt to cross, instinct having warned it of its danger.

The family tree is usually headed by a decrepit and ruminant old gentleman in a species of yachting-cap.

There is no broken glass, there are no painful bottoms of bottles to disturb my ruminant quiet.

ALPACA, a gregarious ruminant of the camel family, a native of the Andes, and particularly the tablelands of Chile and Peru; is covered with a long soft silky wool, of which textile fabrics are woven; in appearance resembles a sheep, but is larger in size, and has a long erect neck with a handsome head.