INDEX 199 



Gar pikes, destruction of, 16 



Giant birds, reasons for distribution and fiightlessness, 127 



Giant Moa, 117 



leg compared with that of horse, 117* 

 Giant Sloth, 189; domesticated by man, 117 



struggle between, 30 



tracks at Carson City, 30 

 Great Auk, extermination of, 182 

 Grouse on Scotch moors, 184 



Hawkins, B. W., restorations by, 113 

 Hesperornis, description of, 57-61 



impressions of feathers, 109-111 



position of legs, 60 



restoration of, 58* 

 Hippotherium, 138 

 Hoactzin, habits of, 53 

 Horn does not petrify, 108 

 Horse, abundant in Pleistocene time, 134 



books on, 143 



of bronze age, 134, 138 



collections of fossil, 143 



development of, 136,* 139-142 



differences between fossil and living, 134 



early domestication, 135 



evidence as to genealogy, 139-141 



extra-toed, 140 



found in South America in 1530, 135 



of Julius Caesar, 141 



none found wild in historic times, 135 



Pliocene, 135 



possibility of existence in America up to the time of its 

 discovery, 135 



primitive, 131, 132* 



