514 F^tl Bones of extinB species of Animals. 



deved it as a white bear ; but it difFers from this animal, as well as from all the known 

 bears, in the form of its head, which is particularly charadierized by the projeflion of the 

 front, by the abfence of the fmall tooth, which all the known bears have behind each canine 

 tooth, by the ofleous channel of the humerus, in which the brachial artery pafles ; and by 

 feveral other circumftances in the figure and proportion of the bones. This animal, how- 

 ever, refembles the bear more particularly than any other kind. 



9. The carnivorous animal of which the bones are found in the plaifter-ftone of Monte- 

 martre : the form of its jaws, the number of its molar teeth, and the points with which they 

 are armed, indicate that this fpecies is referrible to the genus canis ; but It does not com- 

 pletely refemble any fpecies of this genus. The moft ftriking diftinftive mark is that the 

 feventh molar tooth is the greateft in the animal of Montemartre, whereas the fifth is the 

 largeft in dogs, wolves, foxes, &c. 



1 o. The animal of which the lower jaw was found near "^erona, has been confidered by 

 Jofeph Monti as a portion of the cranium of the fea-cow ; a notion which all the geologifts 

 have adopted, though it be the contrary to the moft fimple notions of comparative anatomy. 

 This jaw, according to Cuvier, has belonged to an animal refembling, though fpecifically 

 different from, the mammouth, the animal of the Ohio, and that of Simore. Its moft particu- 

 lar character confifts in the curve which forms its fymphyfis. 



1 1 . The animal of the ftag kind of which the bones and the antlers are found in Ireland, 

 in England, at Maeftricht, &c. It is fufficiently different from all the ftags, and even the 

 elk, to which it has been referred, by the enormous magnitude of its antlers, the flattening 

 of their fuperior part, and the branches which fpring from their bafe. Several figures of thefe 

 are given in the Philofophical Tranfadtions. 



1 2. The genus of the ox or beeve alone affords feveral folFil fpecies : the craniums of two 

 Vere found in Siberia, which have been defcribed by Pallas, who referred one of them to the 

 ordinary buffalo ; but he has fince attributed them to a peculiar fpecies, natives of Thibet, 

 named arni. Citizen Cuvier proves, by ofteologic comparifon, that thofe craniums have 

 not belonged to the buffalo. The other appeared to Pallas to have belonged to the buffalo 

 of the Cape, or the mufk ox of Canada. Citizen Cuvier fhews that they cannot have be- 

 longed to the former, but not being in pofTeflion of the cranium of the arni, nor the mufk 

 ox, he makes no decifion refpedting their identity with the fofftle craniums. 



The author likewife defcribes two kinds of craniums which have been found in the turf 

 pits of the department of La Somme, which greatly refemble our common ox, and that of 

 L'Aurouchs, but are more than one fourth longer. 



From this enquiry, the Citizen Cuvier concludes, i.That it is not true to affirm that the ani- 

 mals of the fouth have formerly lived in the north, their fpecies not being perfedly identical. 

 a. That in every country there have lived animals which do not at prefent exift, either on 

 the fame fpot, or elfewhere in any known country. Hence he leaves to geologifts, the tafk 

 of making, in their fyftems, fuch changes or additions as they may think beft fuited to ex- 

 plain the fa^s which he has thus eftabliihed. 



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