82 Hunting Horned Dinosaurs 



down went the head, up went the crest, and a 

 shield w r ell armed with horns on the face, and 

 horny projections along the sides of the crest 

 was instantly presented to his foe. As the only 

 vulnerable place of attack, to the tiger of the 

 everglades, he would try to strike with his power- 

 ful claw-armed feet somewhere in the flank, for 

 then he could lay bare the vital organs and soon 

 destroy his prey. 



But our Ohasamosaurus was on the watch to 

 prevent this very thing. The grass is beaten 

 down, a ring is formed, and he often rushes for- 

 ward with open beak. If his pincher-like bill 

 once closes on the quivering flesh of the carniv- 

 ore, he would surely get his "pound of flesh." 

 If a moss-covered bog is within reach he would 

 try to get to it, for then he would plunge in, and 

 be safe, as no bipedal flesh eater will dare to fol- 

 low. Our herbivore, however, can swim through 

 it, or through the morass as easily as a living 

 hippopotamus. 



You will notice the horny-beak is shaped like 

 that of a great turtle, though the lower jaws 

 supporting it below are two feet in length. The 

 crest behind, where it overhangs the back, is 

 nearly four feet along the curve. We approx- 

 imately can guess the distance from the lower 

 margin of the jaw to the top of the nasal horn 

 to be nearly two feet. At each angle of the 

 cross-bar behind on the crest, is a long horn-cov- 

 ered spike, while the sides of the crest are also 



