EXTINCT ANIMALS 



neck, but it is striped on the legs and haunches, 

 instead of being spotted. The most decisive point 

 about its relationship is found in the canines 

 of the lower jaw which, although small in size, 

 are bifid or bi-foliate, as are those of the giraffe 



Fig. 114. — Restored skeleton of the giraffe-like animal Hella- 

 dotheriuni, discovered in Miocene strata at Pikernii, near 

 Athens, by M. Gaudry. 



(see Fig. III). Our specimen (Fig. 115)isabout 

 as big as a large stag ; it has no horns, and is not 

 adult. It is probably a female ; the male, we 

 now know, has a pair of horns (Fig. 116), and is 

 extremely close, in the details of its skull, to the 

 Samotherium (Fig. 113). Some fifteen speci- 



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