Upper Aurignacian horse from rock-shelter No. 2 des Roches-de-Sergeac (Dordogne). This fig- 

 ure engraved on limestone is one of tlie principal specimens in the American Museum collection. The 

 flgm-e is about two feet in length and the lines are cut rather deeply. The gravers used must have been 

 larger and heavier than those ordinarily found and in fact flint gravers strong enough for the work have 

 been discovered. The general shape of the horse is typical of the stockily built Quaternary horse whose 

 nearest living relatives are the species from the desert of Gobi, Equus przewalskii, and that native to the 

 lie d' Yeu off the west coast of France 



It is rightly the policy of the French Government to set aside all caverns containing palaeolothic 

 drawings and paintings as national galleries of prehistoric art. Each discovery is reported at once to 

 the Pans Academy of Sciences. Thus museums in America are never likely to display the originals and 

 must depend on copies such as have been recently transferred to the walls of the hall of European pre- 

 historic archaeology in the American Museum 



mals that chiefly figure in this hst are 

 the reindeer, horse, bison, and wild goat. 

 The most beautiful of all is the reindeer 

 represented as browsing. For artistic 

 merit it ranks with the celebrated rein- 

 deer of Thaingen. 



Figures of the horse are no less inter- 

 esting. They seem to comprise three 

 fairly distinct types according to Capi- 

 tan: first, a horse of slender build, small 

 head and erect mane, corresponding to 

 the modern ass; second, a true horse 

 with short but large head, but rather 

 slender body; third, a stocky, hairy 

 horse with heavy mane. 



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In addition to the engravings on stone 

 slabs some rare examples on bone were 

 also found at Limeuil, one of which was 

 obtained by us for the New York mu- 

 seum. The figure in question is incised 

 on a fragment of the metatarsal of a 

 reindeer and is evidently one of at least 

 two figures, probably a procession. The 

 one most complete lacks the nose, 

 upper part of the head including eyes 

 and left ear, and the fore legs. The 

 hind legs were never indicated. The 

 line of the neck, back and tail forms a 

 graceful sweeping curve. The ear is 

 well drawn, the ear opening being 



