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TYPES OF ANIMAL LIFE 



three groups consists only of the giraffe, a creature now 

 confined to the Ethiopian region of the earth's surface, 

 though in Pliocene times it existed in Greece, Persia, 

 India, and China. It has a pair of short, bony processes 

 on the head, coated with hairy skin, and something like 



FIG. 53. 



THE CHEVROTAIN. 



the pedicles of deer, and there is also a median bony 

 protrusion between the eyes, like a low, blunt, third 

 kind of horn. Another of the three exceptional groups 

 above mentioned is that composed of the chevrotains, 

 which are the smallest of all ruminating animals. Three 

 species of these come from the Malay Peninsula, another 

 from Ceylon, while a fifth and larger kind is found on 



