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Memo'r on the Inquiry, Whether any Terrestrial Animals have 

 ceased to exist since Man''s creation ; and zvhether Man was 

 cotemporaneous with Species which are now lost, or which 

 at least do not appear to have representatives now upon our 

 ghbe. By M. Marcel de Serres. (Continued from 

 vol. XVI. p. J^89.) 



Concerning real Beings, naw existing, depicted on Antique Monu- 

 ments, whose Species we can recognise. 



We have, on a former occasion, brought under the observa- 

 tion of our readers, not a few instances of existing animals 

 depicted in antique monuments; and we have taken leave 

 largely to insist on the extreme accuracy which the ancients dis- 

 played on these memorials of their skill. As, however, we learn 

 that the details into which we entered have not appeared suffi- 

 ciently numerous to many antiquarians, we now proceed to sup- 

 ply some additional ones ; at the same time remarking, that the 

 circumstances in which we are placed does not afford facilities 

 for the examination of the original monuments themselves. All, 

 then, that we can now do, is to allude to those examples which 

 are contained in the works to which we have access. 



Previous to entering into these details, and in order to abridge 

 them, we may remark that there is a very considerable number 

 of animals which abound so largely upon the monuments of anti- 

 quity, that we shall point out, only in the general, the works in 

 which they are represented. 



Of these we may enumerate among the terrestrial mammalia 

 which are most frequently figured, the various races of dogs, of 

 horses, of oxen, and of wild boars ; and, along with these, lions, 

 panthers, leopards, elephants, stags, and antelopes. Amongst 

 the birds we may mention the eagle, the hawk, the vulture, the 

 raven, the crow, the ostrich, the swallow, the lark, and titmouse, 

 the partridge, the pigeon, the peacock, the domestic cock and 

 hen, the swan, and the duck. As it regards reptiles, the croco- 

 dile, especially that of the Nile, and the various varieties of ser- 

 pents and tortoises, are most frequently depicted. And, in re- 

 spect to fishes, it may be remarked, that they are found not 



