EXTINCT ANIMALS 



man — all lying loosely covered by a greater or 

 less depth of blown sand, and in some parts by 

 chopped hay — the cavern has yielded bones and 

 teeth and many horny hoofs of horses, appar- 

 ently belonging to the extinct and very peculiar 



Fig. 129. — Photograph having the same history as that 

 shown in Fig. 128. 



South American genus Onohippidium, the skull 

 and bones of a very large kind of jaguar, the 

 skull of a young lama, and bones of other kinds. 

 We have not yet a full account of all that has 

 been found in the cave, nor have the contents, 



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