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Artiodactyla — Sivatherium, etc. 



Head of 

 Sivatherium 

 Stand I. 



A cast of the original craniuni of Sivatherium, with, the 

 horn-cores restored from actual parts, in the collection and 

 elsewhere, has been placed on a stand in the centre of the 

 gallery adjacent to the case containing the skull and other 

 portions of the skeleton. 



Fig. 68/ 



-Skull of SivatheriuM giganteum (Falc. <fc Cautl.), from the Lower Pliocene deposits, 

 Siwalik Hills, India (the horns restored). 



Helladothe- 

 rium, &e. 



Pier-case, 

 No. 14. 



A hornless skull of a nearly allied animal, from the same 

 formation and locality, is placed with Sivatherium, and was 

 considered by Dr. Falconer and other palaeontologists to be 

 the skull of the hornless female ; but it is now referred, by 

 more recent writers, to a distinct genus (Helladotheriu'ni) , 

 whose remains were first discovered at Pikermi, near Athens, 

 Greece. 



The Hydaspitherium from the Siwaliks of India, and the 

 Bramatherium from Perim Island, Gulf of Cambay, are allied 

 genera of large size. Remains of an extinct species of giraffe, 

 (Giraffa sivalensis) , also from the Siwaliks of India, are placed 

 in the same case. 



The most striking new type is a large ruminant, discovered 

 by Dr. Forsyth Major in the lower Pliocene beds of the Island 

 of Samos, off Asia-Minor, named by him Samotherium Boissieri, 

 and said to connect Helladotherium and the giraffe with some of 

 the ancient aberrant antelopes of Pikermi. Remains of this 

 species are shown in Pier-case 14. 



