CONTENTS vii 



the skeleton a problem in mechanics, 124 ; clothing the bones 

 with flesh, 127 ; the covering of animals, 127 ; outside orna- 

 mentation, 129 ; probabilities in the covering of animals, 130 ; 

 impressions of extinct animals, 131 ; mistaken inferences 

 from bones of Mammoth, 133 ; coloring of large land animals, 

 134 ; color markings of young animals, 136 ; references, 137. 



VIII. FEATHERED GIANTS 



Legend of the Moa, 139 ; our knowledge of the Moas, 141 ; 

 some Moas wingless, 142 ; deposits of Moa bones, 143 ; le- 

 gend of the Roc, 144 ; discovery of ^Epyornis, 145 ; large- 

 sounding names, 146 ; eggs of great birds, 147 ; the Patago- 

 nian Phororhacos, 149 ; the huge Brontornis, 150 ; develop- 

 ment of giant birds, 153 ; distribution of flightless birds, 154 ; 

 relation between flightlessness and size, 156 ; references, 156. 



IX. THE ANCESTRY OF THE HORSE 



North America in the Eocene age, 160 ; appearance of early 

 horses, 163 ; early domestication of the horse, 165 ; the toes 

 of horses, 166 ; Miocene horses small, 167 ; evidence of gene- 

 alogy of the horse, 170 ; meaning of abnormalities, 170 ; 

 changes in the climate and animals of the West, 174 ; refer- 

 ences, 176. 



X. THE MAMMOTH 



The story of the killing of the Mammoth, 177 ; derivation of 

 the word " mammoth," 178 ; mistaken ideas as to size of the 

 Mammoth, 179 ; size of Mammoth and modern elephants, 

 180 ; finding of an entire Mammoth, 182 ; birthplace of the 

 Mammoth, 184 ; beliefs concerning its bones, 185 ; the range 

 of the animal, 186 ; theories concerning the extinction of the 

 Mammoth, 188 ; Man and Mammoth, 189 ; origin of the 

 Alaskan Live Mammoth Story, 190; traits of the Innuits, 

 192 ; an entire Mammoth recently found, 194 ; references, 

 195. 



