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neers, who have obtained a considerable portion of the face, and the 

 whole series of molars of one side of a quadrumanous animal, be- 

 longing to a much larger species than theirs. 



In the debris or different beds of the formation which yielded the 

 quadrumanous fossil astragalus, the authors have also discovered ^wo- 

 plotheriuni Sivalense, F. and C, with CrococUlus biporcatus and C. 

 (Leptorhyncus) gangeticus or the Magar, and Garial (Gavial), which 

 now inhabit the Ganges, showing that quadrumana existed, with a 

 member of the oldest Pachydermatous genus of Europe and reptiles 

 of the present day. 



The camel (^Camelus Sivalensis, F. and C), antelope, and ano- 

 plotherium have been exhumed from the same bed. There have been 

 found also the elephant, mastodon, hippopotamus (H, Sivalensis and 

 H. dissimilis, F. and C.), rhinoceros, hog, and horse, together with the 

 Sivatherium giganteum, a huge ruminant, exceeding in size the largest 

 rhinoceros, armed with four enormous horns, divided and foli- 

 ated like the dicranocerine antelopes. There is also a musk deer 

 scarcely larger than a hare ; specimens of the cat (Felis cristata, 

 F. and C.) and of the dog tribe ; the hyaena, bear (^Ursus Sivalensis, 

 F. and C), and ratel, \vith other carnivora. Of the feathered tribe, 

 there are Grallse much larger than the gigantic crane of Bengal 

 {Ciconia Argala). Of reptiles, besides the magar and gavial, there 

 are other crocodiles of enormous size (C. Leptorhyncus crassidens, 

 F. and C.) ; and of Testudinata ordinary-sized species of emys and 

 trionyx, with humeri and femora as well as corresponding fragments 

 of the bucklers of a species as large as the corresponding bones of 

 the Indian rhinoceros. The authors refer to the " Journal" and " Re- 

 searches of the Asiatic Society of Bengal" for descriptions of their new 

 species. 



