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form a complete head, from a larger species. Mr, Fisclier, 

 who discoveried this animal, called it. trogontherium^ which 

 M. Cuvier has adopted for its specific name, 

 Ujy^^jj^ Remains of glires have been found also in schists. Three 



Khist. species have been described, and Mr. Cuvier has seen the 



figure of one, whix^h some authors consider as having be- 

 longed to a guineapig, others to a polecat. He could not 

 determine the genijs however, though it has the characters 

 of the order glires. 

 Fosalbonesof Among the fpssil bones of rumioants found in the loose 

 a-speoesof g^j]^ ]y|,,^ Cuvier has recognised a species of elk, different 

 from th^t now known. Its remains have been collected ip 

 Ireland, in England, on the banks of the Jlhine, and in the 

 , vicinity of Paris, in beds of mafl of little depth, which ap- 



pear to have been deposited in fresh water. Other horns, 

 discovered in abundtjnce, near Etampes, in sand underlying 

 fresh water liipestone, prove the existence of a small species 

 of reindeer pot now known. Mr. C. has also observed re- 

 mains of the horns of the roebuck, fallow-deer, and stag, 

 which do not appear to differ from those of the known spe- 

 <ries. None are more abundant than these. 

 SirolHofthe Among the fossil remains of ruiniqants with hollow horns 

 «B»chs»uru&? },g j^j^y recognised skulls of the aurochs, found on the banks 

 of the Rhine and the Vistula, in the neighbourhood of 

 Cracow, in Holland, and in North America. These skulls 

 differ onl}' in size from those of the present aurochs, and 

 this Mr. C. ascribes to their move abundant nourishment in 

 the vast forests and fat pastures of Germany and Gaul, 

 •ndoftheori* Fossil skulls are also found, that differ from those of our 

 fsn^tof our domestic cattle only in being larger, and having a different 

 iji^ direction of the horns. These have l^een dug up in thp 



▼alley of la Somme, in Su^bia, in Prussia, in England, and 

 in Italy. ** If we call to mind," says Mr. C. " that the an- 

 cients distinguished two sorts of wild oxen \n Gaul and 

 fhcbfactn? Germany, the urus and the bisop, shall we not be tempted 

 to suppose, that one of them was th^t, which, aft^r having 

 furnished our domestic breed of cattle, has become extinct 

 in the savage state; while the otherj^ incapable of bein^ 

 tamed, still subsists in very small numbers only in the forests 

 pf Lithuania?" 



BoTie« of the y^^e find likewise in ^he loose soil bones of the horse an4 

 bjMseand^ar. ^ ^^ 



