href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@38013@[email protected]#Page_127" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">127; outside ornamentation, 129; probabilities in the covering of animals,130; impressions of extinct animals,131; mistaken inferences from bones of Mammoth,133; coloring of large land animals, 134; color markings of young animals,136; references,137.

VIII. FEATHERED GIANTS

Legend of the Moa,139; our knowledge of the Moas,141; some Moas wingless,142; deposits of Moa bones,143; legend of the Roc,144; discovery of Æpyornis,145; large-sounding names,146; eggs of great birds,147; the Patagonian Phororhacos,149; the huge Brontornis,150; development of giant birds,153; distribution of flightless birds,154; relation between flightlessness and size,156; references,156.

IX. THE ANCESTRY OF THE HORSE

North America in the Eocene age,160; appearance of early horses,163; early domestication of the horse,165; the toes of horses,166; Miocene horses small,167; evidence of genealogy of the horse,170; meaning of abnormalities,170; changes in the climate and animals of the West,174; references, 176.

X. THE MAMMOTH

The story of the killing of the Mammoth,177; derivation of the word "mammoth,"178; mistaken ideas as to size of the Mammoth,179; size of Mammoth and modern elephants, 180; finding of an entire Mammoth,182; birthplace of the Mammoth,184; beliefs concerning its bones,185; the range of the animal,186; theories concerning the extinction of the Mammoth,188; Man and Mammoth,189; origin of the Alaskan Live Mammoth Story,190; traits of the Innuits, 192; an entire Mammoth recently found,194; references, 195.

XI. THE MASTODON

Differences between Mastodon and Mammoth,198; affinities of the Mastodon,200; vestigial structures,201; distribution of American Mastodon,