Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found: A Book of Zoology for Boys - Mayne Reid

If, then, we were to take osteology for our guide, I fear we should often arrive at very erroneous conclusions; and were the little hyrax an extinct animal, and not known to us by actual observation, we should be led by anatomical theorists to ascribe to the timid creature a very different set of manners from what it has got.

Despite anatomic theories, then, we shall continue to regard the hyrax—the coney of the Scriptures—as a rabbit, and not a rhinoceros!

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