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the end of the nose ; in the other, which is larger, 

 it is scarcely the sixth. In the animal of the 

 Cape, the lower lateral incisors are more bent, 

 The canine teeth do not seem to be similarly used 

 in the two animals, which would argue, that there 

 was a different mechanism employed in the move- 

 ments of the jaw ; and they are always larger in 

 the Senegal animal. Very many smaller distinc- 

 tions are pointed out, which occur in comparing 

 the different bones of the animals ; but these it is 

 impossible to describe without an actual compari- 

 son. They are, upon the whole, not considered 

 less than those which the Baron has pointed out 

 as separating the fossil from the living species 

 He has applied to them the titles of H. Capensu 

 and H. Senegalimis. 



Three fossil species have been indicated ff> 

 major % minor, and medius. 



