PLATE LVII. 



the living animal, Mr. Abel was induced at a later period to perform 

 the same task again, and as both tables may be presumed to afford 

 a pretty near approximation, we are enabled, by comparing them 

 together, to perceive the progress of its growth during the interval. 

 The animal was very young and had not completed its dentation ; 

 two of its teeth, the posterior grinder on each side of the upper jaw 

 were cut a few months after its arrival : nor indeed had all its teeth 

 appeared at the time it died, as we now perceive from comparing its 

 skull with the adult animal. The first measurements were taken in 

 the month of September, ISiT, the others on the 28th of May, 

 1818 ; at the first of these periods it measured twenty-eight inches 

 from the vertex of the head to the bottom of the heel, at the other the 

 height had increased three inches and a half, for it then measured thirty 

 one inches and a half, and its weight, which had been taken in De- 

 cember, 1817, and found to be thirty-five pounds and a half, had 

 increased to forty-three pounds in May of the following year ; an 

 increase of seven pounds and a half in the space of five months. 

 This rapidity of growth agrees with that of the female alive in Paris 

 in the year 1808, which at the age of two years was more than two 

 feet high, and grew from twenty -six to thirty inches in the space of 

 between five and six months. 



The stature of the animal that was ahve in England in 1818, 

 accords pretty nearly with that which was alive in Paris in the year 

 1808, and of which the preserved skin is now set up in the Parisian 

 Museum, 



The fur of this animal is a rufous brown : this is the colour of the 

 hair, the skin beneath being of a blueish grey. The hair upon the 



