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power and perfection—one that combines the qualities both ofa 
prehensile hand and a grasping arm, and which, therefore, 38 
more serviceable for prehension than the fore-limb of a Carnivore. 
Although this is a perverted use of a nose, it is not supposed to 
be attended with any degeneration of the normal sense below 
that of other Herbivores. The elliptic condition of the jaws im 
the species is connected, as already explained (Art. I, p. 400), ioe 
with the enormous development of the tusks. The forelimb 18 
proportionally as short as in the Lion, and the hand-portion evel 
orter, its length being only one-half that of the humerus. 
~ The Dinothere appears to show in its skull that it was a true 
Proboscidean, that is, an animal with an Elephant-like proboscis. 
so, it was, in all probability, a terrestrial animal, like an 
Elephant, or not more aquatic than a Hippopotamus. The fach 
that prehension is a characteristic of Carnivores and the higher 
Mammals, and, among terrestrial Herbivores, only of the sup 
rior species, indicates that it is a mark of high grade, and, there: 
The Tapiridcans are related to the Proboscideans in the 
snout, and to the Suideans in this and many other characteristics. — 
the horn is absent; and if, as suggested by Blainville, the sa 
a mark of inferiorit 
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extinct 
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the fore-limbs are four in number, as in the Tapir, and besides thi 
