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of a ruminant with the pedicles of a couple of horns attached 

 to the frontal. The saliency of the occipital crest, the sweep 

 of the parietals and the position of the horn pedicles show 

 that it belongs to the Cervine group of the family. But not 

 having the letter-press to refer to, and in ignorance of the 

 scale of dimensions on which the figure is drsuwn, it were 

 useless to hazard or guess about the affinities of the 

 species. 



Fig. 2 of the same plate represents the left line of molars 

 of the upper jaw of a ruminant. Judging from the figure, 

 which shows no internal pillar between the barrels of the 

 molar, the specimen belongs to the Caprine group. 



In Captain Cautley's collection there is a specimen of the 

 articulating head of the lower end of a femur of a bovine 

 species. The dimensions fore and aft, between the articula- 

 ting extremities, are six and a-half inches, exactly equal to 

 the correspondmg measurement of a full-sized wild buffalo 

 {B. Arna) killed in the Shahjehanpoor forests. The existing 

 Yak of Tibet is a much smaller animal. Another specimen 

 in the Suharunpoor collection is the fragment of a scapula, 

 corresponding in size with the femur. There are numerous 

 other fragments of ruminant remains in the Suharunpoor 

 collections, but none of them sufficiently characteristic to 

 merit mention, except the detached core of a twisted sheathed 

 horn belonging to some member of the Caprine group. The 

 horn which it bore must have been twisted on its axis, like 

 the ' Markhor ' wild goat of the Baltistan Moimtains (Little 

 Tibet), a large and nndescribed species. 



There are no remains in the collection which can safely be 

 referred to other mammiferous families except a solitary and 

 detached Hysena tooth proctired from the Bhoteah mer- 

 chant. It appears to be the third molar of the upper jaw, 

 and is of large size. The whole of the specimens of this set 

 are very much fragmented. They are white and have a very 

 recent appearance, but they have lost their animal matter, 

 have a considerable specific gravity, and the tubes of the 

 cylindrical bones are occupied hj crystallized cores of 

 carbonate of lime, affording strong presumption of their 

 being honest fossils. The Hyaena molar in question has the 

 pipes of the fangs and the centre of the tooth filled with a 

 nest of calcareous crystals. 



This concludes what specially regards the determination of 

 the fossils. It is very evident that the list is incomplete, for 

 on a tract which could afford sustenance and a climate suited 

 to the Ehinoceros a great variety of species might be 

 expected. In what follows we put aside the consideration 

 of the others, and address ourselves to the Ehinoceros. 



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