LARGE FOSSIL HIPPOPOTAMUS. 403 



The third specimen described in that work is a frag- 

 ment of the left lower canine tusk of a young Hippo- 

 potamus ; it had scarcely come into use, and the pulp- 

 cavity extends to near the apex of the conical and un- 

 worn crown. From the absence of the transverse rugous 

 markings in the enamel, and the roundness of the cir- 

 cumference of this first-formed portion of the tusk, Mr. 

 Parkinson was induced to suspect that it might have 

 belonged to the small Hippopotamus ;* but similar modi- 

 fications are observable in the recently protruded tusk of 

 the young African Hippopotamus, and are doubtless due 

 to the immaturity of the individual of the fossil species 

 which yielded this small tusk. 



Mr. Parkinson says, " Remains of the Hippopotamus 

 have been found, I am informed, in some parts of Glou- 

 cestershire :"-f- and prior to the publication of the third 

 volume of the ' Organic Remains, 1 Sir Everard Home 

 had deposited in the Museum of the College of Surgeons 

 a tooth the third premolar, right side, upper jaw of 

 the Hippopotamus major, Cuv., which had been dug 

 up in a field called Burfield, in the parish of Leigh, 

 five miles west of Worcester. Mr. Strickland's valuable 

 observations J on the fluviatile deposits in the valley 

 of the Avon, have confirmed these indications of the 

 remains of the Hippopotamus in that locality, and have 

 thrown much light on the conditions under which the 

 extinct species of that now tropical genus of Pachyderm 

 formerly existed in the ancient waters that deposited those 

 sands. 



* Hippopotamus minor, a small extinct species determined by Cuvier in the 

 first edition of the ' Ossemens Fossiles,' but of which I have not yet met with 

 any authentic remains from British strata. 



t Op. Cit. p. 375. + ' Proceedings of the Geological Society,' vol. ii. p. 111. 



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