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is not observed in the camel, the moose deer, or the larger bovine 

 ruminants ; or if ever present, it is but faintly developed. This tex- 

 ture is well marked on the enamel of the teeth of this second species 

 of giraffe. A magnified representation of it is given. 



The series of teeth last described, excepting the fifth and sixth 

 specimens, are all but undistinguishable from those of the Nubian 

 giraffe ; and the authors have sought in vain for any distinctive 

 character by which to discriminate them. There is no good evidence 

 to show that this fossil species and the living are even different ; but 

 in putting the case thus, the authors are far from advancing that the 

 species are identical. The materials are far too scanty to warrant a 

 conjecture to that extent. 



Since the neck of the C. Sivalensis was one- third too short and 

 slender to sustain the head that would have suited the teeth last 

 described, the authors consider it a necessary consequence that these 

 teeth belonged to a distinct species. Had the difference been less 

 considerable, they might have hesitated regarding this conclusions ; 

 but the difference between 8 inches and 1 2 inches in the length of 

 the same cervical vertebra of two adult animals of the same genus, 

 admits, in their opinion, of no other construction than distinctness 

 of species. For the present, until sufficient materials shall be ob- 

 tained to determine the relationship between the African giraffe and 

 the second Sewalik species, in reference to their supposed resem- 

 blance, the authors propose to mark the latter by the provisional 

 name of Camelopardalis affinis. 



General Remarks. — In a former communication to the Society, 

 (Geol. Trans. 2nd ser. vol. v. p. 503) the authors noticed the re- 

 markable mixture of extinct and recent forms which constituted the 

 ancient fauna of Northern India. An extinct testudinate form, 

 Colossochelys Atlas, as enormous in reference to other known Chelo- 

 nians as the Saurians of the lias and the oolite are to their existing 

 analogues, is there associated with one or more of the same species 

 of crocodile that now inhabit the rivers of India. The evidence 

 respecting one of these species of crocodile, resting as it does on numer- 

 ous remains of individuals of all ages, is considered by the authors as 

 nearly conclusive of the identity of the fossil with its recent ana- 

 logue. These reptiles occur together with extinct species of such 



