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tical partition that supported the bones of the nose. It is a lost 

 species ; and a nearly entire body, which was taken from the ice 

 on the banks of the Vilhoui in Siberia, showed that it was 

 covered with tolerably thick hair. It is possible then that its 

 habitat was to the north, like that of the fossil Elephant. 



In Tuscany, and in Lombardy, there have been disinterred, 

 still more recently, other Rhinoceros bones, which seem to 

 approximate much nearer to that of Africa. 



Some have been found in Germany with incisors like the 

 Asiatic species ; and lastly, some of their bones have been dis- 

 covered in France, which announce a size hardly superior to 

 that of the Hog. 



Hyrax, Herm. 



The Damans, as they are termed, have long been placed among the 

 Rodentia, on account of their small size ; if, however, we examine 

 them closely, we shall find, the horn excepted, that they are Rhino- 

 ceroses in miniature, at least they have similar molars ; but their 

 upper jaw is furnished with two strong incisors curved downwards, 

 and at an early age with two very small canini | the lower one has 

 four incisors, but no canini. There are four toes to the fore feet, 

 and three to the hind one, all except the internal posterior, which is 

 armed with a hooked and oblique nail, terminated by a kind of very 

 small, thin, and rounded hoof. The muzzle and the ears are short ; 

 they are covered with hair, and have a tubercle in lieu of a tail. 

 Their stomach is divided into two sacs, and besides a large caecum 

 and several dilatations of the colon, there are two appendages about 

 the middle of the latter analogous to the two cseca of birds. 



There is one species known which is as large as a Rabbit, of 

 a greyish colour, and tolerably common among the rocks of all 

 Africa, where it frequently becomes the victim of birds of prey, 

 and which also appears to inhabit some parts of Asiaj at least 

 we cannot perceive any certain difference between the Hyrax 

 capemis and the H. syriacus. Buff. Supp. VI, xlii, xliii, and VII, 

 Ixxix.(l) The 



Pal^otherium, Cuv., 



Is also a lost genus, with the same grinders as the two preceding, 

 six incisors, and two canini in each jaw, like the Tapirs, and three 



(1) I have strong doubts of the authenticity o{ i\\c Ilyrax hudsonius, Bewick, 

 407, and Schreb. CiCX|L, 9.,. It has only been seen in a Museum. 



