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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



[CHAP. TV. 



and northern Africa, and the other, a Semnopithecus, 

 scarcely distinguishable from that of Southern Asia. 

 The genus Mastodon of the preceding Meiocene age is 

 represented by twcf gigantic species (Mastodon arvernen- 

 sis and M. brevirostris) and the Meiocene antelopes, so 

 abundant in southern France, by one solitary species, the 

 Antilope cordieri. The hogs also here, 

 as in the Meiocene age, possess small 

 canines, apparently not having yet 

 assumed, as Professor Gaudry remarks, 

 the sexual character so marked in the 

 wild boars of the succeeding ages. 

 The carnivores consisted of a bear, a 

 singular animal (Hycenarctos), found 

 also in the Himalayas, as large s as a 

 grisly bear, and a cat (F. Christolii) 

 about the size, of a serval. Numerous 

 rorquils and dolphins lived in the 

 adjacent sea, as well as tjie halithere, 

 so closely allied to the manatee of 

 Africa and America. 



Upper Pleiocene Mammalia 

 of France. 



The mammalia of the Upper Pleio- 

 cenes of Auvergne present many 

 points of contrast with the preceding 

 group. We find, indeed, the same 



FIG. 11. Cervus cusanus, r /-r,. 



Cr. and Job., Pleiocene. mastodon and rhinoceros (.big. 18); 

 Ceyssac, $. a S p ec j es o f tapir also is present, a 



hog, and a kind of bear (Ursus arvernensis) of the size 

 of the common brown bear of Europe ; but here they are 



