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American Philosophical Society. Mr. Jefferson (the 

 author of the paper alluded to) imagines that the 

 bones have belonged to an animal of the genus Felis t 

 or Cat : he has given it the name of Megalonyx. 

 But a correct inspection of the osteology of the ani- 

 mal (as far as we are capable of examining it, for we 

 are not yet in possession of a complete Skeleton), 

 renders it sufficiently certain, that the Green-Bryar- 

 bones did not belong to any animal of the family of 

 Cat, or even to any of the order (Ferce) to which 

 that family belongs. They must be referred to some 

 animal of the order Tardigrada, which comprehends 

 the genera Bradypus (Sloth), Dasypus (Armadillo), 

 and others. 



Mr. Cuvier (of Paris), who has devoted more se- 

 dulous attention to the subject of fossil bones than 

 any person now living, has given an account of a 

 very remarkable skeleton, which was found near the 

 river Plata, in South- America. This skeleton is pre- 

 served at Madrid, and excellent engravings of all the 

 bones in connection with each other, and of the indi- 

 vidual bones separately, have been published in that 

 city*. A careful inspection of those figures, and of 

 the Green-Bryar bones, will render it certain, that the 

 Plata and Virginia animals were generically, if not 

 specifically, the same. To the former Mr. Cuvier 

 has given the name of Megatherium. 



* Deso-ipcion del Esqueleto de un Quadrupedo muy corpulento 

 >' raro, &c. &c. Publicala Don Joseph Garriga, &c Madrid: 



