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EXTINCT MONSTERS. 



South Kensington (Stand I) near to the case containing the skull 

 and other portions of the skeleton (see Fig. 46). There is 

 also hanging on the wall near, a clever painting by Berjeau, 

 representing the creature as it may have appeared when alive. 

 The entire skeleton, partly restored, is shown in Fig. 47, with a 

 conjectural outline of the body. A hornless skull of a nearly 

 allied animal from the same strata and locality is placed with that 

 of the Sivatherium, and was considered by Dr. Falconer and 



Fig. 46. — Skull ol Sivatherium giganteum, from the Sivalik Hills, 

 Northern India. 



others to be the skull of the hornless female (also represented as 

 such in the above picture referred to); but is now, by more recent 

 writers, regarded as a separate genus, viz, the Helladotherium, so 

 named because the remains were first discovered at Pikermi, near 

 Athens, Greece (ancient Hellas). (See Plate XVI.) 



In the Sivatherium we have a new type which seems to 

 connect together two families at the present time well marked oft' 



