It is important to notice that fossil Rhinoceroses belonging to the restricted genus Rhinoceros were in Europe invariably two-horned; it is only in India, where they still exist, that one-horned forms are met with in a fossil state.
A four-horned Chamois was described by the late Mr. Alston.
The American forms have weak and slender nasals in correspondence with the absence of horns; the sagittal crest is retained in contradistinction to the great flattened surface of the skull in the horned Rhinoceroses.
Aceratherium of both divisions of the globe probably represents the ancestral group of the horned and the hornless forms.
Many other Bovidae arehorned in the males only, e.
The Puma, Harpy Eagle, and the Great Horned Owl will at least occasionally attack and devour it.
This being the case it is highly interesting to note a distinct convergence in the quite {260} separate American genera towards the European horned genera.
In this the species in question agrees with the African forms but not with the one-horned Asiatic species, where the two processes completely fuse.
The paired horned Titanotheria offer another instance of the same apparent incompatibility between the Perissodactyle structure and the persistence of paired horns.
The horned creatures looked full at her with their large eyes, and raised their broad damp noses, some of them lowing in expectation of receiving something good at her hands.
Gimp shook the reins and galloped off, making sure Lizzie, his horned toad pet, was safe in his pocket.
He has written the only authoritative book in existence on the markings of horned toads and it will be a great pleasure for me to compare notes with him, for I have made some observations of those creatures myself.
Come," said Tarzan, and taking Jane by the hand he led her around behind the monster and up the broad tail to the great, horned back.
The five- and three-toed hoofs of the ancient horned dinosaurs had become talons in the gryf, but the three horns, two large ones above the eyes and a median horn on the nose, had persisted through all the ages.
Below them, on the ground, moved the horned dinosaur and when they reached the edge of the forest where there lay fifty yards of open ground to cross to the foot of the cliff he was there with them, at the bottom of the tree, waiting.
Much means, much blood this warlike Dane hath spent To advance our flag, above theirhorned moons, And oft hath brought in profitable conquest: We must not see him perish in our view: How far off fight they?
Thirty years before, this abode of the Frayles possessed twenty thousand head of horses, three times that number of horned cattle, and a thousand Indian serfs to till their broad acres.
Another time he advertised us of a wedding, and behold it proved a funeral; and on the creagh, when he foretold to us we should bring home a hundred head of horned cattle, we gripped nothing but a fat bailie of Perth.
This lanthorn doth the horned moon present; Myself the Man i' th' Moon do seem to be.
The sheep of his settlement were not only hornless, but small and light-wooled as well, and the splendid, horned ram took his fancy.
Then it was decreed that the great horned ram should no longer sire the flocks, but be hurried to the doom of his kind and go to the shambles.
His massive, broad-horned forehead struck the stooping man with terrific force.
A vestment of green and gold covered his shoulders, and on his head he wore a white-horned mitre adorned with golden bells, which added to the majesty of his aspect.
The twain were quickly in their saddles, and they had not been long in the wood before the one-horned buck was seen ahead, trotting with easy pace, yet with marvellous swiftness.
As he was walking down the mesa he saw a lizard, of the kind commonly known as a horned toad, lying under a rock in pain.
At one period we read of horned head-dresses, which were so large and high, that it is said the doors of the palace at Vincennes were obliged to be altered to admit Isabel of Bavaria (queen of Charles VI.
It's out of the question for one of those greenhorns to be away up here in the woods; and it was too deep and heavy to be the call of even a big Virginia horned owl.
In other regions woodrats are known to figure prominently in the diet of the horned owl.
Small rodents including voles, cottonrats, and deer mice, were also less abundant then, and the numerous horned owls may have been supported in part by the high population of woodrats.
On several occasions woodrats in live-traps were attacked by horned owls, as shown by the overturned and displaced trap and quantities of fine down adhering to them and to nearby objects.
Throughout the study horned owls were common on the area, but their numbers were highest in 1948.
The horned owl lives in the same habitat as does the woodrat.
On the Reservation the population of horned owls has been fairly stable from year to year, with roughly one pair to 100 acres of woodland.
Like a sharp-horned steer is thy brewed drink, O Indra," probably referring to the taste.
They were all mounted on black steeds, clothed in dark flowing robes that were fringed with costly fringes, and they had caps on their heads that were horned like the new moon.
Two horned larks, apparently killed by weasels, were found on the 160 acre area studied; the horned larks were not in caches of food, nor were remains of horned larks found in scats.
Here while looking around on the shore of the river, he sees an old wiwilmekw like a horned big alligator; blind.
In Diosma there are only five stamens, the style is arched, and the capsule consists of five-horned carpels.
The capsules are elongated like those of the Horned Poppy, but they are distinguished by the projection of the flat fleshy disk at their base; they are two-valved and two-celled.
The best pasture is found in the Confolentais, where horned cattle are largely reared.
There is a special breed of horned cattle, and each island has its own variety, which is carefully kept from all intermixture.
Horses and horned cattle are also very fond of salt: the cow gives more milk, and richer in quality, when salt is mixed with her food.
Tar water is also recommended in the plague, and for the distemper among horned cattle; with what success must be left to experience.
