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to the northern part of Arctic America. Its remains, how- 

 ever, occur in Siberia ; and in 1856 Mr. Kingsley and I 

 were so fortunate as to obtain a portion of a skull from the 

 large gravel-pit near Maidenhead Station. Since then I have 

 met with it again at Greenstreet Green, near Bromley, in 

 Kent ; it has also been found in the gravel of the Avon, 

 near Bath, in that of the Severn, near Gloucester, and at 

 Crayford. It has since been found, though rarely, in France 

 and Germany. 



The Hippopotamus, though hitherto regarded as a distinct 

 species from the H. ampliibius of Africa, was, if not identical 

 with, at any rate very closely allied to it. Some palaeontolo- 

 gists believe that, like the mammoth and the E. tichorhinus, 

 it was covered with hair ; we have, however, no distinct, 

 evidence in support of this view. It may, moreover, be 

 remarked, though too much importance must not be attached 

 to the observation, that our ancient hippopotamus has been 

 less frequently found in association with these two species, 

 than with E. antiquus and E. hemitcechus, Falc. (Uptorliinus, 

 Owen), which, as just mentioned, have a more southerly 

 range. Thus, in this country, it has only been found in four 

 bone-caves, those of Durdham Down, Kirkdale, Kent's Hole 

 Cavern, and Eavenscliff in Gower, and in the two former it 

 was associated with E. antiquus and E. liemitccchus. In the 

 river gravels its remains are found at Grays and Ilford, 

 associated with the E. ticlwrliinus, E. leptorhinus, and E. 

 hemitceclius ; at Walton and Folkestone, with Ehplias an- 

 tiquus; at Peckham, with E. antiqims and E. primigenius ; 

 at Bedford, with E. antiquus, the tichorhine rhinoceros, and 

 the reindeer ; and at Barton, with the mammoth and E. 

 hemitcechus* 



The magnificent Irish Elk, or Megaceros hibernicus, which 



* The British Pleistocene Mammalia, Palseontological Soc. 1866, 

 p. xxviii. 



