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LAND MAMMALS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE 



South America as in North, and, while there were no lions, 

 there were large cats nearly allied to the Jaguar and Puma, and 

 smaller ones, like the Ocelot. The dogs were quite numerously 





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Fig. 118. — Some of the commoner Pampean mammals, reduced to a uniform scale, 

 with a pointer dog (in the frame) to show the relative sizes. 1. '\ Doedicurus clavi- 

 caudatus. 2. fGlyptodon clavipes, f glyptodonts. 3. f Macrauchenia patachonica, 

 one of the t Litopterna. 4. fPa-mpas Horse (f Hippidion neogoeu7n). 5. f Toxodon 

 burmeisteri, a ftoxodont. 6. '\ Megatherium americanum, 7. f Mylodon robiisttis, 

 t ground-sloths. 



represented by species resembling closely the existing South 

 American fox-like wolves and the Bush-Dog (Icticyon) and, 

 strange to say, by one which seems referable to the same 



