INDEX 



Moa : 



Eggs of apteryx, ostrich 



and the giant moa — 



size compared, 242, 



243 



New Zealand giant bird 



see New Zealand 

 Size of the Madagascar moa, 

 242 



Models of horses and cattle : 

 Set of, in the Natural His- 

 tory Museum, 133 

 Value of models as a record 

 of best breeds, 134 



Monkey, monkey-man, and 

 modern man-skulls 

 compared, 88-90 



Monstrous size — giants in for- 

 mer days, theory of, 2, 

 165, 166 



Montmartre, Paris — skeleton 

 of animal found in 

 stratified rock, 46 



Moreno, Dr., 175 



Mud-fishes allied to the ganoid 

 fishes — mud-fishes of 

 Australia and South 

 America, 248 



Mule - — okapi as hybrid or 

 " mule " between ze- 

 bra and giraffe theory, 

 164, 165 



Murchison, Sir R., 296 



Mylodon : 



Date of extinction — sup- 

 posed date, 174, 182, 

 183 

 Remains discovered in cave 

 of the Ultima Speranza 

 in South-west Patago- 

 nia — fresh remains, etc. 



31 



Mylodon — contd. 



Alive in the cave — indi- 

 cations that the mylo- 

 dons lived in the cave 

 and were fed by the 

 Indians, 178 



Bones, claws, etc., of the 

 mylodon, 178 



Inhabitants of the cave : 

 probable Indian inha- 

 bitants, 176 



Pellets of dung of the 

 mylodon, 178 — photo- 

 graphs, 177, 181 



Position of the cavern : 

 explorers' difficulties, 

 181 



Skin covered with green- 

 ish-brown hair, 174 ; 

 photograph, 175, 176 



Skin, hair, etc., preserva- 

 tion of, in original 

 state — probable expla- 

 nation, 182 



Various remains of the 

 mylodons and of man, 

 177-180 



Skeletons — comparison be- 

 tween the skeletons of 

 the mylodon and two- 

 toed sloth, 172, 173 



N 



Neanderthal, skulls of primi- 

 tive men found in sand 

 of, 90 



Neo-tropical region — zoologi- 

 cal province, 63, 65 



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