MEOATHERIID.1E. 



HKGATHKRXID.& 



740 



length, and more than 12 inche* la width, and waa terminated by an 

 enormous daw, and the width of the upper part of the tail could 



roots, wlii.-h, in all probability, conrtitnUxl the principal part of iU 

 food. The snout of the animal appears to have terminated in a ihort 



Skeleton of Megatherium. Clift. 



not hare been lent than 2 feet The following comparative measure- 

 ments, furnishoil by Mr. Clift, will be found in Sir Woodbine ParUh'H 



proboscis, which must have borne a goo,l deal of resemblance in its 

 proportious to that of the modern Tapir*. 



Rketeton at 



Boole of 3 feet. 

 fomhortened, ihnwlnit a Hourly front rlew of the head and anterior and posterior cxtreroitlon. 



Pander and D'Alton. 



inUnsting work,* where a highly characteristic figure of tlie 

 nkeletoti, drawn from the original bones, under Mr. Cliffs mipcrin- 

 Uodenc*, shows the part* which are wanting : 



Elephant. 



The expansion of the ossa ilia . 

 Breadth of the largest caudal vertebra 

 Circumference of middle of femur . 

 Length or the o* calcis 



The whole of the structure of thi extinct animnl is admir..My 

 adapted for digging the earth so a* to enable it to obtain the succulent 



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Megatherium. 

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AJTCI and the Provinces of the Klo de PlaU,' 8 TO, London. 



We have seen that an immenso nhcll or case accompanied the 

 remains discovered to the north and the south of the river Salndo ; 

 and Dr HuckUnd was led to suppose, not without conai.l 

 apparent ground for the opinion, that this shell wiis the armour that 

 protected the 3fffl<ithrri 



" The size of the Megatherium," says Dr. Ciickland, in his ' Tiriiip;.'- 

 water Treatise,' " exceeds that of the existing Edentata, to which it 

 is most nearly allied, in a greater degree than any other fossil apinml 

 exceeds its noarcnt living congeners. With the head and shoulders 

 of a Sloth, it combined in its legs and feet an admixture of the 

 characters of the Ant-Kater, the Armadillo, and thr - i; it 



probably also still further resembled the Armadillo and C'/Uamyjiliorut, 

 in being cased with a bony coat of armour. Its haunches were more 



