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land pony, only two feel ten inches high, and the rough boned draught 

 Skeletons horse, which stands six feel one inch in height. ( !onl 

 of Modem these with the Blender-limbed "S3 Bonby," the famous 

 Horses horse, and the Arabian stallion "Nimr." The horse 



lover will also be interested in the osteological collections in the wall 

 cases which show how to (ell i he age of horses through the growth and 

 development of the teeth. 



Beyond the Horse exhibit on | he left are fossils from South Aiiki lei . 



the most striking of which is the group of gianl ground sloths. There 

 Fossil arc a ^ so good examples of the Glyptodon, a gigantic rela- 



Mammals of tive of the armadillo, of the camel-like Macraucfu nia, the 

 South rhinoceros-like Toxodon, and other strange extind animals 



America w hich evolved in South America during the Age of Mam- 



mals, when it was an island continent, as Australia is to-day. Eere, 

 too, is the great sabre-tooth tiger, one of the host of northern animals 

 that invaded the southern continent upon it> union with the northern 

 world, and swept before them to extindion most of its ancient inhabi- 

 tants. 



The principal exhibits on the north side of the hall are the mammol bs 

 and mastodons and the series of skulls showing the evolution of the 

 elephant. The first skeleton is the Long Jawed Mastodon of the Pliocene, 

 a predecessor of the true Mastodon in North America. The "Warren 

 Mastodon" is a classic specimen. It was found near Newburgh, N. Y., 

 Warren in 1846, and is the finest specimen of its kind that has ever 



Mastodon been discovered. Next to it is a fine skeleton of the 

 mammoth; portions of skin, hair and other fragments of a mammoth 

 carcass discovered in Alaska are also shown. While modern elephants are 

 confined to portions of Asia and Africa, fossil remains of elephants Mini 

 mastodons show that, at one time or another in the past, they were 

 found over the greater part of the northern hemisphere. 



[See Handbook No. 4, Animals of the Past, and Guide Leaflet No. hi. 

 Mammoths and Mastodons.] 



Around the walls is a series of paintings by Charles R. Knight, 

 portraying some of the more striking animals that were contemporary 

 with early man in Europe and America, and whose skeleton- are shown 

 below. Here are the Great Ground Sloths, the Woolly Rhinoceros, the 

 Mammoth and Mastodon and the strange moose-like ( )ervalces. 



