94 Professor Owen on the Megatherium. 
lofty giraffe adapting it to browse on branches above the reach of 
its largest ruminant congeners. If the Megatherium possessed, 
as Cuvier conjectured, a proboscis, it cannot, judging from the 
-suborbital foramina; have exceeded in size that of the Tapir, and 
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