The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology (1911) (14761886606)

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Title: The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937 McCracken, Mary Isabel
Subjects: Zoology Physiology
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library



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FIG. 145. The wild sheep of the Trans-Caspiansteppes, Or is arkal. (After Keller.) 2/2 THE ANIMALS AND MAN especially certain sparrow and finch kinds. There are nownumerous domesticated races which vary structurally incolor-pattern as well as in voice. Many of the charactersresemble the ruffs, crests, and other plumage eccentricitiesof pigeons. The principal place of canary bird breedingat present is in the Harz Mountains of Germany. Tamed cormorants are used by the Chinese and Japaneseas fishing birds, somewhat as falcons were used in days of
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FIG. 146. Wild jungle fowls, Callus bankiva, of India. After Brown.) old as hunting birds. Indeed in these same days cormorantswere used for sport. Charles I of England had a master ofthe cormorants. Nowadays, however, cormorant fishingis a practical means of gaining food. A ring is placed aboutthe neck of each bird so as to prevent it from swallowingthe fish it catches. Several different species of cormorantsare thus used. The ostrich is the most recent addition to the ranks ofdomesticated birds. The tamed species is derived directlyfrom the widely distributed African ostrich, Struthio camelus. Besides mammals and birds two or three species of fish,such as the carp and goldfish, may be called domesticated. DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 273 This is certainly true ofthe goldfish which is aproduct of Chinese ani-mal breeding. Somemost bizarre forms havebeen produced in thethousand or more years inwhich this fish has been asubject of selection andhybridization. There are also finallyat least two