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the boar. The former almost always accompany the fossil ' : i*ir 



elephants, and are found witli the mastodontes, tigers, 

 hyenas, and other fossil bones, discovered in alluvial lands: 

 but it has not been possible to determine, whether they 

 belonged to a species different from our domestic horse. 

 Those of the latter have been obtained chiefly from bogs, 

 and exhibit no mark to distinguish them from those of the 

 common boar. 



Other bones have been found, which belonged, according v s ' rf 

 to Mr. Cuvier, to a new species of manatee. They were in mao*tee;. 

 strata of a course 'marine limestone, on the banks of tl»e 

 Layon, near Angers ; and were mingled with other bones, some 

 of which appeared to have belonged to a large species of 

 seal, others to a dolphin. 



The skeletons of three fossil oviparous q«9€l»'uped«, ^^^^^^^^^^^1;^^^ 

 found in calcareous schist, have likewise been examined by reptiles, ' 

 Mr. Cuvier. One was at Oeningen, on the right bank of 

 the Rhine, at its efflux from the lake of Constance. It had 

 been described and figured as the skeleton of an antedilu* 

 vian man, an errour already refuted. Mr. C. has shown, 

 that it wag a reptile, somewhat resembling the salaman- 

 ders, and belonging to the genus proteus. 



The second, found at the same place, was of the ioa.A 

 genus, and approaching to the bufo calaraita. 



The third, and the most singular, discovered in the quar« 

 riesof Altmuhl,nearEichstadtand Pappenheim inFranconia, 

 had been described and figured by Colini in the memoirs of ** 



the Academy of Manheim. Mr. Cuvier considers it as bar- 

 ing belonged to a species of saurien. The length of its 

 neck and head, its long mouth armed with sharp teeth, an<i 

 its long arms, indicate that it fed on insects which it cau"-iit 

 flyinp;; and the size of its orbits leads to the supposition, 

 that it had very large eyes, and was a nocturnal animal. No 

 reptile now known bears any resemblance to this inhabitant i.;5v * :» 

 of the ancient world. 



In a supplement to his fossils of Montmartre, Mr. Cu- ^ . . . 

 vier has given a hgure and description ot an ornitholite 

 much more perfect than any before published. It appears 

 to have been of the gallinaceous order, and to have come 

 !iearest in size to our common quail. ' 



Mr! 



