DESCRIPTION OF A NEM OBN1 9, &C. 17't 



The right side of the head is the most perfect, and when 

 the bones are placed in apposition] give a good idea of the 



general character of this part of the skull, which stronglj 

 reminds us of that of an Elephant [See Plate XVII. Fig. 1/j 

 A line drawn from the highest part of the frontal to the 

 extremity of the intermaxillary bone measures seventeen in- 

 ches. [Fig. 2.] The fragment of the frontal bone makes up 

 ahout Bve inches of this extent, and is united to the superior 

 edge of the maxillary bone bya suture, and forms at its junc- 

 tion therewith the superior anterior border of the orbit of 

 the eye: the posterior part of the frontal is broken and lost 

 Of the right upper maxillary bone, the whole is preserved, 

 from the end of it-, alveolus for the tnsk. anteriorly, to as far 

 back as the posterior margin of the second molar or perma- 

 nent tooth. A line draw n perpendicular to this tooth would 

 mark its extent superiorly where it forms the inferior ante- 

 rior part of the orbit, of which about one half remains. All 

 posterior to the line mentioned is lost, the hone being bro- 

 ken through its malar process, which -till presents a projec- 

 tion about an inch long. The foramen infra-orbitarium i> 

 situated at the anterior extremity of the base of this process, 

 and in a line with the inner angle of the orbit The supe- 

 rior maxillary hone, measured from its highest pail united 

 to the os frontis, to the edge of the alveole containing the 

 posterior tooth, i- eleven inches high, [nieriorly and inter- 

 aally it is quite imperfect, consisting of only a- much of the 

 alveolar process as serves to contain three teeth, a -mall pari 



of the palatine process, and the int. rfor part id' the socket 



for the tusk; this part of the sockel projects two inches or 

 more beyond the anterior teeth. 



The intermaxillary bones are of considerable size; that of 

 the right side being rather more than twelve inches long and 

 three broad, extending from the inferior edge of the frontal 

 bone to the base of tin gri ,\ tusk, the superior part of whose 

 sockets it forms. The entrance to the nasal passage i- desig- 

 nated by a semicircular indentation on the internal edge "I 



this hone, which i- uninjured at this part; lower down a 



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