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tain extinct animals, which appear to have been in some 

 respects intermediate between antlers and true horns. 



The creature in which this intermediate type of 

 cranial appendages occurs is the huge extinct Siva- 

 there, of the Upper Tertiary deposits of Northern 

 India, which is the largest known representative of the 



FIG. 79. Upper part of skull of Hartebeest, to show horns. (From Gilnther.) 



Kuminants, or cud-chewing Mammals. This animal 

 was provided with huge wide-spreading antlers (al- 

 though it is here difficult to say whether we should 

 use the term antler or horn), somewhat like those of 

 the Elk, but apparently permanently attached to the 

 skull, since they show no sign of a " burr " at the base. 

 They were, in all probability, always covered either 



