176 MR. E. LYDEKKER ON EOSSIL MAMMALIA FROM MARAtrHA. 



Pliocene and Pleistocene times, while the distribution of StrutMo 

 may be traced almost continuously from the Siwaliks, through Balu- 

 chistan and Persia, to Syria and Africa *. The suggested relation 

 of the Erzerum-Maragha fauna (through the unnamed .Rhinoceros) 

 with the Pleistocene fauna of the northern Palsearctic region, and 

 (through Elephas armeniacus) with the existing Oriental fauna, have 

 been already discussed ; and the writer concludes this notice of the 

 Erzerum-Maragha fauna with the expression of the hope that the 

 labours of the German palaeontologists will reveal more fully the 

 relations between the Pliocene fauna of the Palsearctic and Oriental 

 regions which the Maragha deposits give promise of illustrating. 



For the discussion on this paper see p. 181. 

 * See ' Pala?ontologia Indica,' ser. 10, vol. iii. p. xxiv. (1886). 



