SIVATHERIUM GIGANTEUM. 273 



Metatarsus. — This bone, like the metacarpus, is of inter- 

 mediate dimensions between the camel and buffalo, but is more 

 like the latter. In the middle of the anterior end is a deep 

 and well-defined furrow miich more marked than in the 

 buffalo ; the upper part of the posterior surface has also a 

 much deeper mesial depression than in buffalo. Extreme 

 length, 16 '4 inches; transverse diameter of upper end, 3 '9; 

 of lower end, 4*05; of middle of shaft, 2*1. 



in. — Description by Dr. Falconer of Fossil Eemains of Siva- 



THEEIUM IN THE MuSEUM OF THE AsiATIC SOCIETY OF BeNGAL. 



_ No. 327. — Fragment of lower jaw of Sivatherium giganteum, left 

 side, of a very young animal, showing one molar embedded in germ in 

 the alveolus, and part of one in front emerged from the alveolus. These 

 are probably the last milk molar and the first true. The specimen 

 includes behind the base of the ascending ramus and coronoid. The 

 tooth in germ exhibits well the peculiar rugous reticulation of the 

 enamel, so characteristic of the genus. The section in front shows the 

 molar pressing down nearly to the inferior border of ramus with a very 

 limited dental canal. From the Sewalik hills near Nahun, presented 

 by Conductor Dawe. 



No. 328. — Detached molar, lower jaw, with crown worn, covered 

 with a little sandstone matrix. From the Sewalik hills. Presented by 

 Colonel Colvin ? 



No. 329.— Superb specimen of the horn, showing the basal snag and 

 nearly the whole of the broad leafy expansion, broken off only towards 

 the apex ; the convex surface shows four deep wavy ramified channels 

 for blood-vessels of very lai-ge size and converging near the base ; the 

 horn is convex on one surface and concave on the other. It is 

 very thick at the inner border, and becomes thinner outwards and 

 upwards ; the general form of the specimen is an irregular trapezium. 

 The figure by Lieut. Baker shows the form and characters of the 

 antler very well. From the Sewalik hills, Ganawur Khal, near the 

 Haripal branch of the Sombe Eiver. See journ. As. Soc. iv. 506, PL 

 XLIV. fig. 3, also V. 184, D. 3, 4. Presented by Conductor Dawe. 

 This antler was ibund connected by matrix to the cervical vertebra 

 (fig. 2 of PL XLIV. vol. iv. Journ. As. Soc), and both were described 

 by Lieut. Baker as belonging to a fossil elk. 



No. 330 — Fragment composing half the molar of a Sivatherium. 

 Presented by Colonel Colvin. 



No. 331. — Fine specimen of second cervical vertebra nearly entire and 

 deficient only at the anterior and upper part of the spinous process. The 

 bone had belonged to an old animal, as the epiphyses are completely 

 synostosed and the ridges and depressions strongly marked. The vertebra 

 is remarkable for the very great width of the posterior surface measured 

 at the extremities of the aliform expansion of the transverse processes, 

 this dimension considerably exceeding the entire height. The body of 

 the bone is broad at the upper articulating surface ; the odontoid process 



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