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The Urns, (Bos primigenius, Baj.,) M. 



The Bison, {Bos bison,) W. W. 



The Wild Ox, {Bos taurus ferus,) M. 



The Gos-hawk, {Falco palumbarius, Gmel.,) M. W. W. 



The Sparrow-hawk, {Falco nisus, Gmel.,) M. 



The Ring-dove, (Columba palumbus, L.,) M. 



The Wild Duck, (Anas boschas, L.,) M. W. W. 



The Teal, {Alias querquedula, L.,) M. 



The Gray Heron, (Ardea cinerea, L.,) M. 



The Fresh Water Turtle, (Cistudo europcea, Dum.,) M. 



The Frog, {liana esculenta, L.,) M. W. W. 



The Salmon. {Salmo salar, L.,) M. 



The Pike, (Esox lucius, L.,) M. W. W. 



The Carp, {Cyprinus carpio, L.,) M. 



The Dace, {Cyprinus leuciscus, L.,) M. 



It is well worthy of remark, that the hare {Lepus timidus) is want- 

 ing here entirely, as in the Kjoekkenmocdding of the north. This 

 would seem to indicate that the primitive inhabitants of Switzerland, 

 like those of Denmark, had the same superstitious ideas concerning 

 the hare that the Laplanders of the present day have. 1 



Bones gnawed by dogs and bearing the impress of their teeth are 

 numerous in Switzerland, as in the north. There are likewise bones, 

 and especially deer horns, gnawed hy rats and mice. 



The domestic hog and the horse appear to be wanting in the age of 

 stone in Switzerland. Some isolated and doubtful facts might lead us 

 to believe in the presence of the horse during the age of stone in Swit- 

 zerland, but there is no proof that this animal existed there at that 

 time in the domestic state. The Benedictiones, previously quoted, 

 speak of the wild horse, Equus feralis. But in the middle ages what 

 were meant thereby were horses that were allowed to run wild, and 

 for whom they had no stables. One additional fact is curious — horse 

 flesh is mentioned as appearing on the table at St. Gall, whilst in the 

 north the Church excommunicated those who ate it. 2 



M. Schwab having sent to Copenhagen some bones from the Stein- 

 berg, which are known to have belonged to the age of bronze, it became 

 possible to compare them with the ancient bones of Denmark. This 

 comparison, although made between a small number of specimens, has 

 already furnished some very interesting results. There was found 

 among these specimens from the Steinberg a jaw-bone of a dog, ex- 

 actly corresponding with the dog of the bronze age of Denmark. 

 There was also the domestic hog, and, moreover, the long bones of the 

 sheep, even a little more slender than those of the sheep of the bronze 

 age of Denmark. A very small tooth of a horse established still 

 another connecting link with the north. 3 



1 Cesar states that the Britannia ate neither the hare, the hen, nor the goose. De hello 

 gallico, V. 12. 



- The hog of the turf-bogs is still found, it seems, as a domestic jrace in the canton of the 

 Grisons, (Switzerland.) This same canton also possesses some very small races of cows, 

 goats', and sheep, the study of which, about to be undertaken by Mr. Rutimeyer, cannot 

 fail to bo very interesting. 



s Mr. Troyon has found at Echalleus,in burgundian tombs of the fifth and sixth centuries 

 of our era, horses of as great size as the largest we have now. 



