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PICTUEESQUE SKETCHES 



large in the posterior direction, and the general ex- 

 pression probably dull and heavy. The teeth were 

 rather fitted for bruising and crushing the branches 

 and twigs of trees, than for masticating the more suc- 

 culent and coarser food of the rhinoceros ; but the ani- 

 mal must have had a compound stomach, resembling, 

 in the peculiar and typical habit connected with this 

 structure, the ordinary ruminants, though the habit was 

 not perhaps developed to quite so great an extent. 



Fig. 142 



SlVATHERIUM. 



The most remarkable fact with regard to this 

 animal is connected with another point of structure by 

 which it approximates the ruminating tribe : I mean 

 the possession of horns. Not only was the Sivathere 

 provided with one pair above the brows, but it had 

 .another pair placed more towards the back of the 

 head, in the manner observed in some of the four- 



