178 MAMMALIA. 
tical partition that supported the bones of the nose. It is a lost 
species ; and a nearly entire body, which was taken from the ice 
on the banks of the Vilhoui in Siberia, showed that it was 
covered with tolerably thick hair, It is possible then that its 
habitat was to the north, like that of the fossil Elephant. 
In Tuscany, and in Lombardy, there have been disinterred, 
still more recently, other Rhinoceros bones, which seem to 
approximate much nearer to that of Africa. 
Some have been found in Germany with incisors like. the 
Asiatic species ; and lastly, some of their bones have been dis- 
covered in France, which announce a size hardly superior to 
that of the Hog. 
Hyrax, Herm. 
The Damans, as they are termed, have long been placed among the 
Rodentia, on account of their small size; if, however, we examine 
them closely, we shall find, the horn excepted, that they are Rhino- 
ceroses in miniature, at least they have similar molars; but their 
upper jaw is furnished with two strong incisors curved downwards, 
and at an early age with two very small canini; the lower one has 
four incisors, but no canini. There are four toes to the fore feet, 
and three to the hind one, all except the internal posterior, which is 
armed with a hooked and oblique nail, terminated by a kind of very 
small, thin, and rounded hoof. The muzzle and the ears are short ; 
they are covered with hair, and have a tubercle in lieu of a tail. 
Their stomach is divided into two sacs, and besides a large cecum 
and several dilatations of the colon, there are two appendages about 
the middle of the latter analogous to the two czxca of birds. 
There is one species known which is as large as a Rabbit, of 
a greyish colour, and tolerably common among the rocks of all 
Africa, where it frequently becomes the victim of birds of prey, 
and which also appears to inhabit some parts of Asia; at least 
we cannot perceive any certain difference between the Hyrax 
capensis and the H. syriacus, Buff. Supp. VI, xlii, xliii, and VII, 
jxxix:( 1} Dhe 
PaLZOTHERIUM, Cuv., es 
Is also a lost genus, with the same grinders as the two preceding, 
six incisors, and two canini in each jaw, like the Tapirs, and three 
(1) I have strong doubts of the authenticity of the Hyrax hudsonius, Bewick, 
407, and Schreb. CCXL, cc. It has only been seen ina Museum. 
’ fli 
ey _— 
thee? 
