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 (Photograph by J. P. Buwalda.)

mammal group in the whole history of our fauna. It included creatures resembling on the one hand the pigs and on the other hand the camels and deer. There are also rare remains of a large antelope or deer of the genus Dromomeryx. A small deer-antelope, Merycodus, a dainty creature with teeth like an antelope and horns like a deer, is represented at several localities by abundant fragments of teeth, limb-bones and