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LAND MAMMALS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE 



South America as in North, and, while there were no lions, 

 there were large cats nearly allied to the Jaguar and Puma, and 

 smaller ones, like the Ocelot. The dogs were quite numerously 



Fig. 118. — Some of the commoner Pampean mammals, reduced to a uniform scale, 

 with a pointer dog (in the frame) to show the relative sizes. 1. ■fDoedicunts davi- 

 caudatus. 2. ^Glyptodon clavipes, t glyptodonts. 3. ^ Macrauchenia patachonica, 

 one of the t Litopterna. 4. t Pampas Horse (t Hippidion neogoeum) . 5. t Toxodon 

 burmeisteri, a ftoxodont. 6. f Megatherium americanum. 7. fMylodon robustus, 

 t ground-sloths. 



represented by species resembling closely the existing South 

 American fox-like wolves and the Bush-Dog (Icticyon) and, 

 strange to say, by one which seems referable to the same 



