EXTINCT ANIMALS 



were well-watered and under cultivation. The 

 drawing given in Fig. 107 is prepared from a 

 skull in the Natural History Museum, where we 

 have brought together portions of several other 

 skulls and the complete set of bones of the 

 skeleton dug up, some by Dr. Andrews and some 

 by the energetic officers of the Egyptian Survey. 

 The huge pair of horns are entirely bony out- 

 growths of the nasal bones, and are hollow. A 

 small second pair of horns lies behind them. 

 Probably in life the big horns w^ere clothed with 

 a horny case like the horn of a bull or antelope. 

 The teeth are most remarkable, since the}^ form 

 a complete series, without a break, and are 

 present to the full number — seven cheek-teeth, 

 a canine and three incisors on each side in both 

 upper and lower jaw — wonderfully graduated 

 in form and size. 



A complete account and illustrations of the 

 remains of this most remarkable beast, the skull 

 of which alone is nearly three feet in length, will 

 soon be given by Dr. Andrews in a large volume 

 on the extinct animals obtained from the sands 

 of the Egyptian Fayum which is now in prepara- 

 tion and will be published by the Trustees of 

 the British Museum. 



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