HIPPOPOTAMI. 



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Tzana-Dembea, at an elevation of over six thousand feet above the sea-level. The 

 existing species is unknown in Madagascar ; but from the reference to it in the 



A FAMILY PARTY OF HIPPOPOTAMI (^ nat, 



Bible, under the name of Behemoth, it is just possible that it may have inhabited 

 Palestine within the historic period. 



In the Pleistocene and upper portion of the Pliocene epoch a large hippopotamus 



