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(Hyrax or Procavia) bears a strong resemblance to certain rodents, 

 the short cars and reduced tail being especially like those of the cavies. 



Fig. 205. — Dugong, Halicore ditgong. (Ecdrawn after Lydekker.) 



They are unlike the ungulates and like the rodents in that the incisor 

 teeth grow from persistent pulps. In certain other respects they re- 

 semble primitive ungulates. 



Fic. 206. — Coneys or hyrace.s, Tlyrax ahi/ssinicus. (From Lull, after Brehm.) 



Some of the coneys live among rocks, while others are partly ar- 

 boreal. The Scriptures describe them as "exceeding wise" and as 

 "feeble folk," but the observation that he "cheweth the cud but 



