58 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. in. 



developed of the Quadrumana. It is considered, how- 

 ever, by Professor Gervais 1 and Dr. Forsyth Major to 

 indicate an extinct genus, Pliopithecus, allied to the 

 anthropoid apes, and differing in the form and propor- 

 tions of its teeth from that of the true Gibbons. 



In Fig. 8 the latter animal is taken to indicate the 

 probable appearance of the fossil. A second ape, Dryo- 

 pithecus Fontani? found in association with oak-trunks 

 at Saint Gaudens, Haute Garonne, is considered by 

 Prof. Lartet to be one of the anthropoid apes, rivalling 

 man in size, and by Prof. Owen 3 to be allied to the 

 Pliopithecus and living gibbons. A third ape, found at 

 Steinheim in Wurtemberg, is described by Prof. Fraas 4 

 as a species of Colobus (C: grandcevus) ; while a fourth, 

 Oreopithecus, found in the lignites of Monte Bamboli, is 

 stated by Prof. Gervais 5 to be allied to the anthro- 

 poid apes, the macaques and the baboons. 



Mid Meiocene Birds. 

 The mid Meiocene birds identified by Prof. Milne- 



1 Lartet, Notice sur la Golline de Sansan, Auch, 1851. Gervais, Zool. et 

 Pal. Francoises, p. 8. See Forsyth Major, Actes de la SocittJ Italienne des 

 Sc. Nat. xv. 1872. Riiiimeyer, quoted by Heer, Le Monde Primatifen Suisse. 



2 Lartet, Comptes Rendus, xliii. 1856. The late development of the 

 wisdom tooth or last molar, considered by Professor Lartet to be a char- 

 acter common to this animal and man, is also met with, as Dr. Forsyth 

 Major observes, in the Macacus rhesus. It has not, therefore, the importance 

 which is attached to it both by Professor Lartet and Sir Charles Lyell (Student' s 

 Elements, p. 196). See also Professor Gaudry's interesting analysis of the 

 characters of this jaw, Sur les Enchainements, p. 237 et seq. 



3 Owen, Proceed. Zool. Lond. xxvi. 1859, p. 18. 



4 Fraas, Die Fauna von Steinheim Wurtemberg Naturw. Jahreshefte, 

 xxvi. 1870, p. 145. 



s Zool. et Pal 2d ser. 4to, p. 9. 



