76 PETRIFACTIONS AND THEIR TEACHINGS. CHAP. II. 



of Mammalia and Reptiles, and many bones of colossal 

 Birds from New Zealand. 



A. [1.] Bones of Mammalia from the drift and alluvial 

 deposits of England. Among them are teeth of Elephants, 

 Horses, Deer, Ox, &c. (collected by the Author), from the strata 

 overlying the Chalk along the Sussex Coast, between Brighton 

 and Rottingdean. The ungueal bone, cannon or metatarsal 

 bone, and teeth, of an extinct species of Horse (Equus fos- 

 silis), imbedded in masses of conglomerated pebbles from the 

 ancient shingle bed, are especially worthy of notice. 1 



Near these fossils are several bones (of a bluish black co- 

 lour, from phosphate of iron) of a Deer, discovered in the 

 alluvial silt of Lewes Levels. 



B. [2.] Megalonyx. On a shelf on the upper part of this 

 case there is a series of models of bones of the Megalonyx, 

 a colossal extinct Edentate mammalian ; the originals were 

 discovered in the celebrated Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, 

 United States. 2 



Moa or Dinornis. On the upper shelves of this case, to the 

 right of the above specimens, are many bones of the extremi- 

 ties, and several pelves, of extinct colossal birds from New 

 Zealand, called Moa by the natives, but more generally known 

 by the scientific name, DINORNIS. All these specimens 

 were collected by Mr. Percy Earle, from the submerged 

 deposit at Waikouaiti, on the eastern shore of the Middle 

 Island, which will hereafter be particularly described. The 

 enormous size of some of these bones cannot fail to arrest 

 the visitors' attention : a tibia, or leg-bone, in this collection 

 is one of the largest known, and indicates a bird eleven or 

 twelve feet high. 



C. [3.] On one of the shelves is placed the anterior portion 

 of the upper and lower jaws, with teeth, of an enormous 

 Gamal, from the Eocene deposits of the Sewalik Hills. 



Skulls with teeth, and other bones of Mammalia, and por- 



1 See "Medals of Creation ; Excursion to Brighton Cliffs," vol. ii. 

 p. 913. 



2 Originally in the Author's Museum ; presented by Dr. Morton, of 

 Philadelphia. An interesting account of a late exploration of this 

 remarkable cave, by Prof. Benjamin Silliman, Jun., and Mr. Reginald N . 

 Mantell, is given in the " American Journal of Science " for May, 1851. 



