38 THE RISE OF MAN. 



formation shows traces of a bird long since extinct. The 

 same anthropologist has found in his recent trip to 

 Warnambool, in the state of Victoria in Australia, a great 

 number of stone tools and implements, human and ani- 

 mal fossils dating back to the paleolithic period. 



TYPE OF AN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN. 



After a photograph. ( IVeltatt und Mcnschhcit, II, 315.) 



It has been pointed out that Australia is a unique and 

 isolated continent which harbors a number of intermediate 

 species. It contained the lowest known human race which, 

 however, has died out since the arrival of the white man. 

 The wild dog called dingo, the duckbill, the kangaroo and 



