X. 



NOTE 



ON THE 



FOSSIL CAMEL 



OF THE 



SIVALIK HILLS. 



By HUGH FALCONER., M. D., 



Superintendent, Botanical Garden, Sehdranpur, 

 AND 



Captain P. T. CAUTLEY, 



Superintendent, Doab Canal. 



Amongst the most interesting of the Fossil remains of Mammalia, which 

 have been found in the Sivalik strata, the Camel may undoubtedly take up 

 a high position. Independently of the speculations which the remains of 

 this genus would lead to, relatively to the form and features of the country 

 previously to their entombment, the circumstance of the Camel having been 

 up to this period a desideratum in Fossil Zoology adds very considerably 

 to the interest of the present discovery. 



The only* remain which we find noted is in CuviER'sOssemens Fossiles, 

 where a reference is made to the Bleri/cothcrium Sihericum of M. Bo j anus, 



* Ossemens Fossiles torn 5, part ii., page 507. Besides the Merycotherium, Cuvier also 

 notices in the same article a fossil femur, of which he says " qui resserable aussi beaucoup, 

 dans ce qui en reste, jk celui d'uu chameau." A drawing of the specimen, which was found 

 near Montpellier was sent by M. Marcel DE Serre to Cuvier. Our information does not 

 extend later than the third edition of the Ossemens Fossiles in 1825. 



