. Palaeontological memoirs and notes of H. Falconer, with a biographical sketch of the author . existence of a posterior pair of horns in Sivatherium. The spe-cimen is drawn one-sixth of the natural size. A description ofit by Dr. Falconer will be found at page 266. (See also pages268 & 538.) Fig. 3. Is a fragment from the middle of the posterior horn. It wasoriginally in Sir Proby Cautleys collection, and is now in theBritish Museum. Cat. No. 39,525. It was found to corres-pond to the posterior horn-core of the specimen represented infig. 2. The figm-e is one-sixth of the natural size, and is
. Palaeontological memoirs and notes of H. Falconer, with a biographical sketch of the author . existence of a posterior pair of horns in Sivatherium. The spe-cimen is drawn one-sixth of the natural size. A description ofit by Dr. Falconer will be found at page 266. (See also pages268 & 538.) Fig. 3. Is a fragment from the middle of the posterior horn. It wasoriginally in Sir Proby Cautleys collection, and is now in theBritish Museum. Cat. No. 39,525. It was found to corres-pond to the posterior horn-core of the specimen represented infig. 2. The figm-e is one-sixth of the natural size, and is copiedfrom a drawing, by Mr. Ford, in an unpublished Plate of tlieFauna Antiqua Sivalensis. (See pages 268 & 539.) Fig. 4. Restoration by Mr. Dinkel of the skull of Sivatherium gigan-teum, showing the anterior and posterior pairs of horns, one-eighteenth of the natural size. Fig. 5. Fragment of sternum, about one-seventh of the natural figure is copied from a drawing, by Mr. Dinkel, in an un-published plate of the Faima Antiqua Sivalensis. (See pages270 & 540.) VOL. SIVATHERIUM GIGANTEUM. 267 hollow, and the suture, as in the Bovidce, appears to havebeen lower than the crest. The mastoid regions on both sides are of great width, equal-ling that of the space across the two condyles. The frontal,as before mentioned, is contracted between the rear and fronthorns, and is depressed slightly in the interval between them,from which it swells on either side in a bulge which runs intothe base of the horns. The base of the left rear horn is onlypresent in part. The right one shoots out laterally and back-wards, and slightly upwards, as in the Bovidce, and from therear portion of the frontal, where it meets the plane of theoccipital exactly as in the Bos. It overhangs the temporalfossa, and the fossa has the same form exactly as in the pedicle for the first 4^ inches of its rise from the swell ofthe brow is contracted; it then expands with a hollow and aflattish
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