and Giraffe from North of India. 587 



very modern types as the monkey, the camel, the antelope, and (as 

 has now been shown the giraffe : and these are met by species of the 

 extinct genera Sivatherium and Anoplotherium. As regards the 

 geographical distribution of the true Anoplotheria, those hitherto 

 discovered have been confined, as the authors believe, to Europe ; 

 and as regards their geological distribution, to the older and middle 

 tertiaries. In India this genus continued down to the period when 

 existing Indian crocodiles and probably some other recent forms had 

 become inhabitants of that region. 



It might be expected that in a deposit containing Anoplotherium, 

 Palaeotherian remains also would sooner or later be discovered. 

 However, among the very large collection of fossil bones from the 

 tertiary sub-Himalayan range, made by the authors during ten years 

 in that part of India, they have never found a single fragment of a 

 head or tooth which they were able to refer to Palseotherium. This 

 is merely a negative result, and only proves the rarity of that form.* 



Although there occur among the Sewalik fossils abundant remains 

 of almost every large pachydermatoes genus, such as the elephant, 

 mastodon, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, sus, horse, &c, yet no remain 

 has been found referrible to the Tapir, a fact the more remarkable, 

 inasmuch as one of the only two existing species of that genus is 

 now confined to the larger Indian islands and a part of the adjoining 

 continent. 



The finding of the giraffe as a fossil, furnishes another link to the 

 rapidly increasing chain which (as the discoveries of year after year 

 evince) will sooner or later connect extinct with existing forms in a 

 continuous series. The bovine, antelope, and antlered ruminants 



* Mr. M'Clelland in his paper on Hexaprotodon (Journ. Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, vol. vii. p. 1046) casually mentions a species of Palaeotherium as oc- 

 curring among the Sewalik fossils. But he does not describe or figure the speci- 

 men. Messrs. Baker and Durand in their remarks appended to their catalogue 

 of the Dadoopor collection (Idem, vol. v. p. 836), mention four specimens con- 

 taining teeth of the upper and lower jaws belonging to what they provisionally 

 designate " Cuvierian genera:" in regard to one of which, having the upper 

 and lower jaws in contact, they state that, " although it affords some analogies 

 both to the Palaeotherium and Anoplotherium, its essential peculiarities are suf- 

 ficiently remarkable to cause it to be separated from either genus." Till these 

 specimens are either figured or described, the point must remain undecided in 

 regard to l'alajotherium being represented iu the Sewalik fauna. 



