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The artist is at times un- 

 certain in his stroke. The 

 curve in the region of the 

 short standing mane is ex- 

 aggerated and it is difficult 

 to account for the irregu- 

 larity of the Hne that begins 

 at the base of the ear and 

 ends at the back of the 

 neck, a Httle forward of the 

 withers. In drawing the 

 fore legs a false stroke was 

 made that begins at the 

 chest and passes downward 

 slanting outward a little in 

 front of the fore legs. The 

 inability of the artist to 

 represent the legs, both fore 

 and hind, in profile is like- 

 wise apparent. Each leg appears inde- 

 pendent of its mate as if the two were 

 seen from in front instead of from the 

 side. On the other hand the shape of 

 the body is characteristic for the small 

 Quaternary horse of stocky build whose 

 nearest living representatives are the 

 horse from the desert of Gobi, Equus 

 przewalslcii, and the native horse on the 

 lie d'Yeu off the west coast of France. 

 That portion of the slab on which the 

 tail and a portion of the outline of the 

 hips were incised had been broken off 

 and was not recovered by M. Didon. 



Discoveries of unusual importance 

 have recently been made by the Abbe 

 Bouyssonie at the rock-shelter of Limeuil 

 (Dordogne) on the west bank of the 

 Vezere, opposite the point where it flows 

 into the Dordogne. This station is of 

 Magdalenian age and therefore of later 

 date than the two shelters at Sergeac 

 previously mentioned. Here also the 

 artists left engravings on more or less 

 shapeless slabs of limestone, seventy- 

 nine of which have been recovered, and 

 are now in the Musee des Antiquities 

 Nationales at Saint-Germain. The ani- 



Flint-scrapers of upper Aurignacian Age from rock-shelter 

 No. 2 des Roches-de- Sergeac 



Bone- polishers from the Abri Blanchard 



