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would seem between the large Lophiodons and the huger Proboscidians." To 

 complicate the matter stUl further, there has been discovered in the Department 

 of the Haute-Garonne in Southern France, an immense fossil pelvis, supposed to 

 belong to the D. [See American Journal of Science for November, 1864.] It is 

 five feet eleven inches from one crest to the other of the iliac bones, and four feet 

 three inches in a line cutting it vertically. In its lower portion are two subtri- 

 angular depressions which are evidently articulating cavities, in which fitted 



marsupial bones. It may be, therefore, that the D. was a marsupial ; although it 

 is still as uncertain as before to what exact order of animal this didelphic feature 

 was in this case added. The skull, scapula, femur and pelvis (?) are the only parts 

 of the D. yet discovered. The scapula resembles that of a Mole. The skull is char- 

 acterized by a very fiat occipital bone (approximating in form the occiput of Ce- 

 tacea), large nasal aperture opening above, and large suborbital fossae, which, 

 together with the form of the nose, seem to indicate the presence of a short pro- 



