252 INDEX 
Mastodon, size, 211 
skeletons on exhibition, 218 — 
species, 203 
teeth, 198, 199,* 218 
tusks, 199, 200 
Mesohippus, 167 
Mimicry, not conscious, 128 
Missourium of Koch, 207,* 208 
Moas, collections of, 156, 157 
contemporary with man, 143, 144 
deductions from distribution, 143 
destruction of, 143, 144 
discovery of bones, 140 
elephant-footed, 142 
feathers of, 141 
Giant, 141 
supposed food of, 142 
legends of, 139, 140 
literature, 158 
scientific names, 146 
size of, 141 
species of, 141 
Moloch, an Australian lizard, 100 * 
Mosasaurs, abundance of, in Kansas, 52 
books on, 69 
collections of, 68 
extinction of, 56 
first discovery, 50 
jaw of, 54 * 
