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perly canines. There are two species known, and 

 one as yet insufficiently indicated. 



Hyrax Syriacus or Daman, is probably the cony 

 of the English version of the Scriptures, and the 

 Cape species, Hyrax Capensis, or Klrpdas of the 

 Dutch, may be the same, both having four toes ou 

 the anterior, and three on the hind feet. 



Hyrax arboreus may be that with three toes on 

 all the feet, for which we refer to Volume XXIII. 



In the next group, we place the solidungular 

 family, which, in its osteology, bears still the rudi- 

 ments of three toes, and the incisors are , usually 

 accompanied by tusks in the male ; it embraces the 

 Equidce or Horses, whereof a detailed account is 

 found in Volume XXII. of this work. 



In the last of the Pachydermous order, those 

 with cloven feet and two additional false hoofs, we 

 begin to have ruminantial characters of organisa- 

 tion, although there are still incisors in both jaws, 

 the dentition varying in the genera. It includes all 

 the species of Hog described in Volume XXIIL, 

 to which we add the fossil 



Genus ANOPLOTHERIUM of Cuvier, with a den- 

 tition , \-\, If-li = 44, of which he recognized 

 three species, A. commune, of the stature of a pony ; 

 A. secundarium, shaped like a roebuck, with no 

 succintorial hoofs to the cloven feet ; A. minus, not 

 larger than a hare ; and A. minimum, of the size 

 of a guinea pig, besides several other small, and one 

 large species distinct from the above. 



But there were discovered besides debris of ex- 



