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PAUNA OP THE INDIAN ELIJVIATILE DEPOSITS. 
Had it been feasible I should very gladly have deferred the extraction of 
these bones for a day or two to do it more leisurely than was then possible ; unfor- 
tunately the weather was very unsettled, numerous heavy thunderstorms had taken 
place within the previous week, and another was gathering at the time. Should 
a flood come down the nullah the greater part of the bones laid bare would 
certainly be swept away and lost. Then also the spot being between six and seven 
miles from my camp, it was impossible to keep watch over the fossil remains thus 
exposed, while the attention of several field labourers had been attracted by seeing 
me busily removing the soil with my hands, and they in their cmaosity would, in 
all probability, have utterly ruined this valuable specimen had I left it unguarded. 
I decided, therefore, to take it at once as being the siu’est way of getting it as nearly 
as possible entire. 
A few inches below the surface the clay became damp, but was still extremely 
tenacious, and it required great care and much patient labour to loosen the bones 
without entirely crushing them. 
The position occupied by the head was suggestive of its having been drifted into 
its present resting-place, the heaviest part, the cranium, being undermost. The 
head had, however, not been entirely overturned, but originally rested on the right 
frontal bone and supraorbital ridge. The greater part of the right side of the head 
had been broken away by flood action undermining the bank. Unfortunately most 
of the bones thus detached and found loose in the nullah were too fragmentary to 
be joined together. 
The left maxilla and left ramus of the mandible were in perfect apposition 
when freshly exposed, but the left side of the head had suffered severely prior 
to its entombment, as the frontal and nasal bones were missing. 
The position of the left ramus in apposition to the maxilla offers a strong 
indication of the head, though much mutilated, not having been entirely deprived 
of its external covering of flesh at the time it was buried in the black clay. 
No indications of any bones but such as belonged to the head were met with in 
situ, though the bank was excavated to some little depth after removing all that 
remained of the cranium. 
Among the bones found loose in the bed of the nullah only one or two frag- 
ments appear to belong to the body of the animal, and they are somewhat doubtful. 
The bones found imbedded were — 
1. — The mandible, nearly perfect. 
2. -— The left maxilla with jugal and lachrymal bones attached. 
3. — The squamosal hone with meatus auditorius and post-tympanic process of the left side. 
4. — Part of right frontal bone. 
5. ' — Hyoid bones? 
6. — Pterygoid bone (right side ?) 
Lying loose in the sandy bed of the nullahs were parts of the right maxilla, 
fragments of teeth, and two or three bones too fragmentary to be determined. 
