80 THE EAKTH. 



the rein-deer, the roebuck, and the goat. A wild horse, a 

 wild ass or quagga, and the wild boar, entered also into the 



FIG. 32. MAMMOTH, TELEOSAUKT7S, AND GLYPTODON. 



series of British pliocene hoofed animals. The carnivora, 

 organised to enjoy a life of rapine at the expense of the 

 vegetable feeders, to restrain their undue increase and abridge 

 the pangs of the maimed and sickly, were duly adjusted in 

 size and ferocity to the fell task assigned them in the organic 

 economy of the pre-adamite world. Besides a British tiger, 

 of larger size and with proportionately longer paws than 

 that of Bengal, there existed a stronger feline animal 

 (Machairodus) of equal size, which from the great length 

 and sharpness of its sabre-shaped canines, was probably the 

 most ferocious and destructive of its peculiarly carnivorous 

 family. Of the smaller felines, we recognise the remains of 

 a leopard, a large lynx, and of a wild cat. Troops of hyenas, 



