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Mustang Horses

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MUSTANG HORSES. The mustang has been denominated the wild horse of North Amer ica, and with the same truth as the term wild horse of South America is used. There are no wild horses in , America except such as having escaped from domesticity in an early day have since become wild so far as the term nday be properly applied to animals which are obliged to subsist entirely without the care of man. The mustang has descended from the Spanish horses brought hither by early adventurers, and esca ping from confinement, have covered the plains of Central America, Mexico, Texas and California with vast herds, furnishing the Indians of the plains of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona with fleet and untiring chargers, domestication having had the seeming effect of improving their powers of endurance. The mustang as found on the plains of Mexico and Texas is undersized, slight limbed, long necked, longbacked, andwith seem Agarieus. (Arnatzika.) Cresarius, strobiltrormis, rubea rem Arrniaaria. Mellens.

Boletus. Luteus, elegem, flavidus, colliuitns, granulates, boviuus, anbtomentoans, edulis, versipellis, amber, carnal] eus.

Cantharellue. Cibarius.

Clavaria. (Ramaria,) Playa, botrytis, fastigiate, runs eiddeS. tetragona, cristata,, rueoaa, uligimea, macro pus pyx.tdata, aurea, tormosa.

C/itocybe. Webul aria, odorue, giganteus, cespitosus. Prenulus.

Coilybia. Radicatue, esculentue.

' &pilaus. Comatue, atramentarins.

. • Corlinarius. Infractua violaceue.

Cortinartus. Pholideue, cinnamomeus, castanene. Pfstutina. Hepatice.

Hydnum. (1. Meeopse.) Imbricatum, aubaquamosum, kevigatum, repandum, rufesceue.

Hygrovhorus. Chrysodon, eburneue, pratensia. Lactarzous. Torminosua, Inauleus, mperatus, deliciosus, f-.. volemua, aubdulcis, Ppiota. Procerus, achodes, excoriatus, mastoideus. Harasmiue. Oreades, scorodonius.

- Aferiema. Coralloides, caput-Meduere.

Berkman. Frondoens, cristatue. confinens, giganteue, sulphurens, berkeleil.

Pholiota. Squarroeue, mutabille.

ingly weak haunches. Their hoofs, also, are inchning to flatness. Their heads are long, lean, but well shaped and well set. Their nostrils wide, and their manes and tails fine. Considering their external appearance they perform admirably under the saddle. They are easily outstripped by well bred horses, are vicious, but easily sub dued, under the severe treatment of the herds men of the plains, or cow-boys as they are called, nearly as wild as the mustangs themselves. Their money value is exceedingly small, and year by year they are becoming less and less in numbers, civilization gradually rendering them less and less numerous, from the constant increase of better blooded stock among the ranches of Texas, and the stockmen of the far West.