i68 EXTINCT MONSTERS. 



South Kensington (Stand I) near to the case containing the skull 

 and other portions of the skeleton (see Fig. 46). There is 

 also hanging on the wall near, a clever painting by Berjeau, 

 representing the creature as it may have appeared when alive. 

 The entire skeleton, partly restored, is shown in Fig. 47, with a 

 conjectural outline of the body. A hornless skull of a nearly 

 allied animal from the same strata and locality is placed with that 

 of the Sivatherium, and was considered by Dr. Falconer and 



FlG. 46. Skull of Sivatherium giganteum^ from the Sivalik Hills, 

 Northern India. 



others to be the skull of the hornless female (also represented as 

 such in the above picture referred to); but is now, by more recent 

 writers, regarded as a separate genus, viz. the Helladotherium, so 

 named because the remains were first discovered at Pikermi, near 

 Athens, Greece (ancient Hellas). (See Plate XVI.) 



In the Sivatherium we have a new type which seems to 

 connect together two families at the present time well marked off 



