PIG. 31. SKULL OE THE DINOTHEEIUM. 



midable tusks as those of Africa. Three kinds of wild oxen, 

 two of which were of colossal size and strength, and one of 

 them maned and villous like the bonassus, found sub- 

 sistence on the plains. Deer as gigantic, in proportion to 

 existing species, were the contemporaries of the old Uri 

 and Bisontes, and may have disputed with them the pasturage 

 of that ancient land. One of these extinct deer is well 

 known as the Irish elk, by the enormous expanse of its broad- 

 palmed antlers (fig. 33) . Another herd proves more like those 

 of the wapiti, but surpassed that great Canadian deer in 

 bulk. A third extinct species more resembled the Indian 

 Hippelaphus, and with these were associated the red-deer, 



