1 1 6 Osteological Description of the 



Fig. 3. from the cabinet, is one of the lower teeth, also^ 

 very little worn. It was found in the neighbourhood of 

 Avignonet. 



Fig. 4. is the germ of an upper molar tooth nearly similar 

 to tho?e of fiar. 2 : it is in the museum, but it is not known 

 in what place it was found. 



Fio-. 5. a posterior upper molar tooth of the right side, 

 not nuich worn, from the environs of Cansiadt. It was 

 sent to me bv M. Autenrieth, professor at Tubingen. 



Fig. (5. is the germ of a posterior upper molar tooth of 

 the left side, from the living two-horned rhinoceros. 



Fig. 7. an anterior upper'molar tooth of a large individual 

 in the collection of the museimi : the origin of it is un- 

 known. 



Fill, 8. is an inferior molar from the environs of Canstadt. 

 It was also sent to me by M. Autenrieth. 



I shall return to these dificrcnt teeth' in another memoir. 



3d, Of the Fcrtchrce. 



Of these there are 56 in all. 

 7 Cervical. 

 19 Dorsal. 

 3 Lumbar. 

 5 Sacral. 

 2':2 Coecygian. 

 The rt;/<7.$has its transverse apophyses as large and broad as 

 that of any other animal They have a hole instead of the in- 

 dentation at the base of their anterior edge. The spin;il i^ 

 only a laroc tubercle. Under the body there is a small lon- 

 •gitudmal ridge. 



The transverse apophyses of ihc axis are small, and turned 

 backwards : those of the follow ing ones are very broad, and 

 descend towards the ribs : they have three angles, an ante- 

 rior and tw o posterior. 



The seventh has only a small one which touches the sixth, 

 3nd wliich must considerably confine their respective move- 

 ment. 



Tlie spinal apophyses <ro on increasing; that of the third 

 vertebra is only O-04, that of the seventh 0-25. 



That of the second dorsal is longer, it is 0'40; it is besides 

 vc! y thick : they then go on decreasing in length, and be- 

 coming t^at on the sides to the thirieentli, which is the 

 lowest, it is 0' 1:2, and they then again increase. The first 

 lumbar is 0' I, i; the three spinal apophyses of the lumbar 

 are vertical; all those of the hack are turned backwards ; the 

 Uausverse apoph)'ses are very short, and present to the 

 5 tubercles 



