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LOWER MAMMAL GALLERY. 



Buminants, 

 etc. 



Pangolins (fig. 34), and the Aard-vark. The Sea-Cows, 

 as represented by the Dugong and Manatee, are shown in the 

 Geological Department. In the third bay are the Pigs and 

 Hippopotamuses ; in the fourth the Camels, and near by the 

 Chevrotains, or Mouse-Deer. Following on are the Deer {Ger- 

 vidct), many of which, as already stated, are placed in the 

 middle line of the gallery. Properly speaking, the Giraffes 

 and their recent and extinct allies, the former represented by 



Fig. 35. — Male Peongbuok or Phonqhorn Antelope (Antilocapra amerieana). 



the Okapi of Central Africa (fig. 13, p. 37), should come in here. 

 But, as already mentioned, it has been found convenient to re- 

 move all the members of the Giraffe group into the east corridor. 

 In the adjacent wall-case stands the Prongbuck or Pronghorn 

 Antelope (Antilocapra, fig. 35), the sole representative of a 

 family characterised by the circumstance that the horns have 

 hollow sheaths, which are branched and shed annually. Next in 

 order come the Antelopes, a large number of which are placed in 



