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In the Indian Museum* we have also specimens of Mus and Semnopithecus from the 
same deposits. The whole of the genera in the above list are still living in India with the 
exception of Tetraprotodon, which is now confined to Africa: all the genera (and species at 
present determined) are also found in the Nerbudda deposits. The mammalian fauna of the 
Nerbudda and Godavari deposits presents a somewhat more copious list than the foregoing: 
many of the species have been figured by Falconer (see “ Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis” and 
“ Pahcontological Memoirs”), but a few new species are contained in the collection of the 
Indian Museum. The following is the list from these formations :— 
Bimana. 
Man. (stone weapons.) 
Pboboscidia. 
Elephas namadicus, Falc. ... Stegodon insignis, Falc. 
Perissodactyla. 
Rhinoceros namadicus, Falc. ••• Equus namadicus, Falc. 
Aetiodactyla. 
Hexaprotodon namadicus ... Bubal us palaeindicus, Falc. 
Tetraprotodon namadicus ... Bos namadicus, Falc. 
Cervus namadicus, Falc. 
Carnivora. 
Felis (sp. nov. Indian Museum) ... Ursus namadicus, Falc. 
Rodentia. 
Mus (sp. nov. Indian Museum). 
The topmost Siwalili clay and conglomerates near Bubhor (see Mr. Medlicott’s paper, Rec. 
Geological Survey, India, vol. IX, pt. 2, p. 57) have yielded to Mr. Theobald’s careful 
search”two species of Mammals, viz., Bubal ns palteindieus and Camelus sivalensis. As the 
first of these species is unknown amongst the subjacent Siwalik Fauna, and as the second is 
an essentially modem form, I have chosen to group these uppermost Siwaliks with the Ner¬ 
budda beds rather than with those lying below them. Mr. Medlicott, however, is rather 
inclined to doubt this view. 
It will be observed that in the above lists, the whole of the genera, with the excep¬ 
tion of Hexaprotodon and Stegodon (which are really only 
Living genera. sub-genera), are still living on the globe, and among the 
living genera, with the exception of Hippopotamus, the whole number are still living in India. 
None of the fossil species have, hitherto, been satisfactorily identified with living forms ; 
one species of deer is, however, very closely allied to the living Indian Bueervus (as I shall 
show in a subsequent paper); and the Bubalus palteindieus (as far as eraniologieal characters 
«o) is scarcely separable from the Bubalus arm of India. The presence of a true taurine ox 
(Bos namadicus) in these beds marks the distinctness of this fauna from that of modern 
India, but, at the same time, such a highly specialized form confirms the veiy recent age of 
these formations. 
Certain species of Ruminants, such as Bos Falconeri and Cervulus styloceras described 
by Mr. Theobald from the Nerbudda valley (Mem. Geol. Surv., India, vol. II, p. 279), 
a re founded on bones of Bos namadicus and Bueervus. 
* Bones figured in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, Bengal (vol. II. p. 35), as human from these beds, were 
subsequently shown by Falconer to belong to other mammalia. 
