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CHAP. XVII.] MAMMxVLIA. 229<br />

last Catalogue (1873) he divides the genus into three<br />

—<br />

Hyrax,<br />

Eithyrax and Dendrohijrax—the latter consisting of two species<br />

confined apparently to West and South Africa.<br />

No extinct forms of this family have yet been discovered ;<br />

Hyracotherium of the London clay (Lower Eocene) which was<br />

supposed to resemble Hyrax, is now believed to be an ancestral<br />

type of the Suidas or swine.<br />

Neotropical<br />

St;b-regions.<br />

Order X.—EODENTIA.<br />

Family 55.—MUEID^. (37 Genera, 330 Species.)<br />

General Distribution,<br />

the

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