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CENOZOIC TIME — MAMMALIAN AGE. 



quadrupeds have been made out. The bones occur in great num- 

 bers over the prairies or pampas of La Plata, and in the caverns of 

 Brazil ; and they include some thirty species of Rodents (/Squirrels, 

 Beavers, etc.), species of Horse, Tapir, Lama, Stag, a Mastodon different 



Fig. 840. 



Beluga Vermontana (X }/&)• 



from the North American, Wolves and half a dozen panther-like 

 beasts which occupied the caverns of Brazil, Ant-eaters, twelve or 



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Fig. 841. 



Megatherium Cuvieri (X ■h)- 



fourteen species related in tribe to the Megatherium (Sloth tribe), 

 and a dozen or more related to the Armadillo. They number more 



