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Table VII'I. — Distribution of the Fujx muJ Peccaries 



Ruminants. — Under this term, we may conveniently include all the 

 selenodont artiodactyls, — the camels and tragulines, deer, antelopes,, sheep 

 and cattle, besides various extinct groups. 



They are admittedly of Northern origin. In South America, they do 

 not appear until the end of the Tertiary (Microtragulus. Monte Her- 

 moso) ; their representatives in the Oligocene of North Africa are much 

 more primitive tliaji the contemporary artiodactyls of Europe; the high- 

 est and most progressive types are found to-day in Asia, and the most 

 antique and primitive survivals in the East Indies, West Africa and trop- 

 ical America. The several groups indicate in their present distribution, 

 and in what is known of their past history, that their centers of dispersal 



^ Schlosser has shown that Oeiiinhiinx is a Ilyracoid. nut au .Vrtiodactyl. 

 "" Gaj fauna, regarded by Pilgrim as upper Aquitanlan. 



