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In a general sense Brandt is of opinion " that the C. jnjgurgus may be 

 regarded as a Roe of larger form, with the head and horns of an ordinary 

 Stag, unto which it in some degree approximates by the form of the tail, 

 which is more voluminous or bulky than in the common Roe." As Brandt 

 would compare the horns of the C. pygaryus with those of the Red-deer 

 I do not sec why, if this comparison be taken literally, the specific difference 

 between C. pyyaryus and rapreolus should not be set beyond all doubt. At 

 all events remarkable differences are still left in both kinds of animal, should 

 they even constitute bnt local varieties according to the characters given by 

 Brandt, 



Dr. Falconer and Captain Cautley distinguish from among the remains 

 of primo-mundaue Giraffes hitherto found imbedded in the Sewalik hills, 

 two species : Camelopardalis sivalensis and affinis. (Ann. of Nat. Hist, xiv, 

 p. 146.) 



(1) C. sivalensis is based upon the third cervical vertebra which is about \ 

 smaller than in the living species, and exhibits other differences. (2) C. affinis 

 approximates very closely to our living Giraffe in the form and size of the 

 teeth, and so on, and is based upon two fragments of the upper, and one 

 other, of the lower jaw. 



The anatomy of a Giraffe that died at Toulouse has been undertaken by 

 Joly and Lavocat, and communicated with provisional remarks. (Instit. p. 

 54.) They do not appear to have been acquainted with Owen's work upon 

 the same subject. In their specimen the gall-bladder was wanting, which 

 was also the case in that examined by Owen ; while in a third it "not merely 

 occurred of very large size, but also double. The relation of what has been 

 called the third horn they, as well as the Reporter, Owen, and Ruppel have 

 found out. 



CAVICORNTA. The examples of the occurrence of fossil 

 remains of primo-nmndane animals from this division begin 

 to increase. In the loose deposits of the Issoire country 

 different fossil relics have been found, and ascribed by Pomel 

 to an aboriginal Goat, and called Cupra Rozetti. (Rev. 

 Zool. p. 284.) 



Brehin reminds naturalists, in the Isis, S. 484, that the 

 name Capra pyrenaica was first bestowed upon the Pyre- 

 iiean wild Goat by Bruch, and not by Schinz. 



Under the article Daim, llouliu has contributed to 

 D'Orbigny's Diet. Univ. d'Hist. Nat. iv, p. 577, very 

 detailed and learned remarks upon the origin and races of 

 the domestic Goat. Schlossberger gives an account, in 



