100 ANIMALS OF THE PAST 
Triceratops, he of the three-horned face, had 
a remarkable skull which projected backward 
over the neck, like a fireman’s helmet, or a 
sunbonnet worn hind side before, while over 
each eye was a massive horn directed forward, 
a third, but much smaller horn being some- 
times present on the nose. | 
The little “ Horned Toad,” which isn't a 
toad at all, is the nearest suggestion we have 
to-day of Triceratops; but, could he realize 
the ambition of the frog in the fable and 
swell himself to the dimensions of an ox, he 
would even then be but a pigmy compared 
with his ancient and distant relative. 
So far as mere appearance goes he would 
compare very well, for while so much is said 
about the strange appearance of the Dinosaurs, 
it is to be borne in mind that their peculiari- — 
ties are enhanced by their size, and that there 
are many lizards of to-day that lack only — 
stature to be even more bizarre ; and, for ex- is 
ample, were the Australian Moloch but big 
enough, he could give even Stegosaurus | 
“points” in more ways than one. 8 
Standing before the skull of Triceratops, — 
