[43]. See Proceedings of the Geological Society, March 1839, and Parish’s Buenos Ayres, p. 178, b, Pl. 1, fig. 2 and 3.
[44]. Σκελις, femur; Θηριον, bellua; in allusion to the disproportionate size of the thigh-bone.
[45]. This beach is covered at spring tides; many parts of the skeleton were encrusted with recent Flustræ, and small marine shells were lodged in the crevices between the bones.
[46]. It requires little stretch of imagination to conceive that this more complex posterior tooth (Pl. [XXIII]., fig. 4, 4) in the lower jaw is the representative of the two smaller posterior teeth (ib. fig. 3, 4, and 5) of the upper jaw conjoined.
[47]. Lund, Videnskabernes Selskabs, Natur.: og Mathem. Afhandlinger, Kiöbenhavn, vol. viii.
[48]. Linn. Trans. vol. xvii. (1833) p. 17.
[49]. Zool. Proceedings, 1832, p. 134.
[50]. The anterior prolongation of the sternum in front of the neck and the corresponding anterior position of the clavicles and scapulæ occasions a transference of such a proportion of the moving powers of the head from the cervical vertebræ to these bones in the mole, as renders any modifications of these vertebræ, like those in the Armadillo, uncalled for.
[51]. Loc. cit.
[52]. Bridgewater Treatise, p. 46.