ANCHITHERIUM. 



327 



of various kinds of fossil horses which resembled our present 

 ones more nearly than did H. gracile. The Hipparion 

 flourished in the upper Miocene and lower Pliocene ages, and 

 was from 13 to 14 hands high. 



The Hipparion was preceded in the Miocene period by a 

 somewhat similar, three-toed animal, the Anchitherium, which 

 was about 10 hands high. We may see from Fig. 193 that 

 its side toes were longer than those of its successor. The 



Fig. 193. — {After Gandry.) Left Fore Foot of Anchitherium (^th real 

 length). The lettering is the same as that of Fig. 192. 



Russian palaeontologist, Kowalevsky^ points out that the bones 

 below the fetlock in the Anchitherium, were not so firmly 

 united together, as they were in the Hipparion, and still less 

 so than in the horse ; and, consequently, that there must 

 have been a certain amount of lateral play in them. The 



