INDEX 



Moa : 



Eggs of apteryx, ostrich 



and the giant luoa — 



size compared, 242, 



243 



Xew Zealand giant bird 



see Xew Zealand 

 Size of the Madagascar moa, 

 242 

 Models of horses and cattle : 

 Set of, in the Natural His- 

 tory Museum, 133 

 Value of models as a record 

 of best breeds, 134 

 Monkey, monkey -man, and 

 modem man-skulls 

 compared, 88-90 

 Monstrous size — giants in for- 

 ^ mer days, theory of, 2, 

 ' 165, 166 

 ]Montmartre, Paris — skeleton 

 of animal found in 

 stratified rock, 46 

 Moreno, Dr., 175 

 Mud-fishes allied to the ganoid 

 fishes — mud-fislies of 

 Australia and South 

 America, 248 

 Mule — okapi as hybrid or 

 " mule " between ze- 

 bra and giraffe theory, 

 164, 165 

 Murchison, Sir R., 296 

 Mylodon : 



Date of extinction — sup- 

 posed date, 174, 182, 

 183 

 Remains discovered in cave 

 of the Ultima Sj)eranza 

 in South-west Patago- 

 nia — fresh remains, etc. 



Mylodon — contd. 



Alive in the cave — indi- 

 cations that the mylo- 

 dons lived in the cave 

 and were fed by the 

 Indians, 178 



Bones, claws, etc., of the 

 mylodon, 178 



Inhabitants of the cave : 

 probable Indian inlia- 

 bitants, 176 



Pellets of dung of the 

 mylodon, 178 — photo- 

 graphs, 177, 181 



Position of the cavern : 

 explorers' difficulties, 

 181 



Skin covered with gi'een- 

 isli-brown hair, 174 ; 

 photograph, 175, 176 



Skin, hair, etc., preserva- 

 tion of, in original 

 state — ^probable expla- 

 nation, 182 



Various remains of the 

 mylodons and of man, 

 177-180 



Skeletons — comparison be- 

 tween the skeletons of 

 the mylodon and two- 

 toed slotli, 172, 173 



N 



Neandertlial, skulls of jirimi- 

 tive men found in sand 

 of, 90 



Neo-tropical region — zoologi- 

 cal province, 63, 65 



318 



