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and sometimes with their real colours. Such, for example, are 

 the peacock, the partridge, the parrots, the ostrich, and the 

 horse, which are to be found in the mosaic discovered among the 

 ruins of Italica, in Spain. The horse is represented as he is found 

 in his wild state, that is to say, with a uniform bright bay coat. 

 What we have just said of the works of Micali, might also be 

 said of many others, amongst which we shall only quote the 

 Museum Etruscum of Gorius, the different works of Augus- 

 tini and Montfaucon, of Caylus, of Hancarville, of Vaillant, and 

 of Mariette. The treatises respecting the various monuments 

 which have been discovered in Paestum, Pompeia, and Hercula- 

 neum, also deserve to be mentioned in relation to the same point. 

 Lastly, we may remark, that, according to the opinion of M. 

 Schweighseuser, Greek Professor at Strasburgh, there is a lost 

 species, engraved in a work of Millin (Galerie Mythologique), 

 which we have not in our possession, and which Ave have not 

 been able to procure. According to this able antiquarian, this 

 animal is not intended, as Millin has supposed, to represent the 

 Trojan horse, but rather a species of goat or antelope, quite dif- 

 ferent from the known races. This supposition is confirmed by 

 the inscription which is found in close contact with this animal : 

 in fact, whetlier we read it Aiya-oe,, or Tiya-i, it ever brings us back 

 to o-oat, or sort of antelope, for the Greek word A<'| signifies 

 o-oat, and in the German dialects they still employ the wordGegse 

 to distinguish a variety of this genus. 



If this observation be correct, as its author's name svould in- 

 duce us to suppose, it would hence result, that the terrestrial 

 mammalia which have disappeared from off the surface of the 

 earth since the times of history, and of which antiques have pre- 

 served the recollection, would belong to the same families as 

 those species which are buried in the quaternary deposits, linked 

 to the same epoch, and which are extinct the same way as are 

 the former. It is, in truth, only with the Pachyderma, the 

 Solidungula, and the Ruminantia, that the lost races brought 

 under our notice in historical monuments connect themselves, 

 and it is known that these are also the families which abound 

 most in all quaternary formations whatever. 



To recapitulate, the lost species of the terrestrial mammalia, 

 the traces of which are preserved on the antiques, are reduced, 

 according to our observations, to the number of five, and if the 



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