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58 developed of the Quadrumana. It is considered, however, by Professor Gervais and Dr. Forsyth Major to indicate an extinct genus, Pliopithecus, allied to the anthropoid apes, and differing in the form and proportions of its teeth from that of the true Gibbons.

In Fig. 8 the latter animal is taken to indicate the probable appearance of the fossil. A second ape, Dryopithecus Fontani, found in association with oak-trunks at Saint Gaudens, Haute Garonne, is considered by Prof. Lartet to be one of the anthropoid apes, rivalling man in size, and by Prof. Owen to be allied to the Pliopithecus and living gibbons. A third ape, found at Steinheim in Wurtemberg, is described by Prof. Fraas as a species of Colobus (C. grandævus); while a fourth, Oreopithecus, found in the lignites of Monte Bamboli, is stated by Prof. Gervais to be allied to the anthropoid apes, the macaques and the baboons. {{dhr}]

The mid Meiocene birds identified by Prof.