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The Sivatherium. 



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remains of the Sivatherium were accompanied by those of the Elephant, 

 Mastodon, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, sevefal Ruminantia, &c. 



" It is stated (p. 88) that there is a wider distance between the living 

 Genera of the Order Pachydermata than between those of any other 

 Order of Mammalia, and that many intervals in the series of these 

 animals have been filled up by extinct Genera and Species, discovered in 

 strata of the Tertiary series. The Sivatherium forms an important 

 addition to the extinct Genera of this intermediate and connecting cha- 

 racter." — Supplementary Notes. 



In the number of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 

 February 1837, we find an account and representations of further frag- 

 ments of this very interesting fossil animal, from which we extract the 

 following. 



" Additional fragments of the Sivatherium. — Before Colonel Colvin'8 

 departure for Europe, we requested permission to take a cast of 

 the beautifully preserved lower jaw of the Sivatherium which he ex- 

 hibited at the Government House i uentific party in January last. In 

 further token of his zeal for science, and of his ever readiness to oblige, 

 he has, even in the hurry of embarkation, favoured us with the accompa- 

 nying lithographic drawings of the same jaw, and of the larger fragment 

 of the occiput also on its way to adorn some cabinet of fossil osteology 

 of his native land. This fragment is the more valuable oil account of 

 its being perfect in the parts deficient in Dr. Falconer's specimen. 



" ( I herewith send you two plates of the Sivatherium, one of the por- 

 tion of the head I was fortunate in having brought in from the lower 

 hills below and west of Nahan just before I left Dddupur. It arrived 

 encumbered with a good deal of hard sandstone matrix, most of which 

 I had cleared away. This specimen is valuable, though it has no teeth, 

 from having the occiput very entire, and from its proving the accuracy 

 of Dr. Falconer's assumption, founded on examination of the origi- 

 nal head, that the animal had four horns with bony cores, as this has 

 the offset of one of the back branched horns very clearly marked ; suit- 

 able to which I may mention that Captain Cautley has found in his 

 collection a large flat horn. 



" ' For the left lower jaw of the Sivatherium, I am indebted to 

 Conductor W. Dawe, of the Canal Department, for whom it was 

 brought in, inclosed in a mass of similar sandstone, from near the 

 sources of the Sombe river, north of Dddupur and east of Nahan, 

 shortly before I came away. It is a very perfect and beautiful 

 specimen, with its molars, four in number, almost quite entire, and is 

 the specimen which you have moulded.' " 



