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Nothing similar can be expected to be found out of the class of pachy- 

 dermata : the gnawers (rosores), the ruminants, the solipeds, all have the 

 intervening space. The ordinary carnivorous animals, and the quadru- 

 maries, have all large canine teeth. There are only the hedgehog and 

 the shrew which manifest any analogy with this animal, with respect to 

 their teeth. But their lateral incisors are so obliquely sharp, and their 

 canine or first molar teeth are so like incisive, that, without speaking of 

 the enormous difference of size, the number of their grinders, and the 

 form of the jaws, are quite different. It cannot, however, be denied, that 

 there exists some resemblance in the shape of the grinders themselves. 



In the lower jaw of this animal, the great width of its rising branch, 

 and that convexity of its posterior edge, which is hardly ever seen but in 

 the daman and tapir, are observable. The coronoid process is large and 

 hooked, and rises very considerably above the condyle. 



The teeth of the upper jaw appear to correspond with those of the 

 tower jaw ; there not being any canine tooth, nor any space between the 

 incisive and the grinders. The greatest correspondence between the 

 teeth of this animal and those of the palaotherium, is to be found in the 

 three last grinders, whilst the others essentially differ. 



The size of the most common species of this animal, he conjectures to 

 have rather exceeded that of the wild boar. Besides the remains of 

 this species, he found those which were evidently of a smaller species, 

 about the size of a small sheep, which he named A. medium. He dis- 

 covered the remains also of a still smaller species, in which the hinder 

 part of the jaw, and particularly the coronoid apophysis, appeared to 

 differ from that of the former species. This species, which seems to 

 be very rare, he distinguishes as A. minus. The examination of some 

 remains of another animal, which must have been about the size of a 

 rabbit, led him to suspect, but did not allow him to determine, that 

 there had existed a smaller species, to which he would have given the 

 name of A. minimus. 



