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or Stations of the former age, in Dordogne and other countries, we have not 

 ourselves ever collected a single Fish-bone ; and we know that remains of Fish 

 are abundant at La Madelaine, in the Cave of Les Eyzies, and particularly in the 

 Bock-shelter of Bruniquel. There was not, therefore, in the mode of living an 

 absolute conformity between the people of these two periods, though inhabiting 

 the same country, and in the neighbourhood of the river, rich probably with fish 

 then as now. Could it be that the more ancient people had no good fishing- 

 implements ? Or, perhaps, were they in the habit of eating their fish raw on the 

 banks of the river, whilst their descendants, or successors of a different race (?), 

 preferred to take their fish to the Caves and Shelters where they cooked their 

 other articles of food ? Indeed some modern travellers tell us of existing savages 

 living near the sea and yet ignorant of the means of obtaining fish therefrom as 

 an article of food. 



Before leaving the consideration of this Fauna of Cro-Magnon, I would remark 

 that no trace has been met with of the Saiga Antelope. Indeed it is only in the 

 Stations with barbed arrow-heads, and where the Reindeer predominates, that we 

 have as yet observed remains of the Saiga. Perhaps some persons may be 

 disposed to admit that the people using barbed arrows must have introduced the 

 Saiga into Western Europe, as others have already supposed that the same race 

 brought in the domesticated Reindeer and even the Horse*. According to some 

 the Saiga is moreover as fit for domestication as the Reindeer. 



In verifying, in the first place, the specific determination of the cores which I 

 was led to refer to the Saiga, I only had the opportunity of studying, for 

 comparison, a pair of horns, in the Museum of Natural History, which Professor 

 Milne-Edwards courteously allowed me to have sawn through lengthwise, so as 

 to show the structure of their bony cores. This examination removed all doubt 

 as to the specific identity of the fossil horns from the Caves of France with those 

 of the Saiga now living in Russia. For the comparison of the limb-bones, 

 however, and also of the head and teeth, I was at a loss for material, as there 

 was neither skull nor skeleton of this animal in the Museum, though afterwards 

 the bones of a young one were procured. I have, however, through the kindness 

 of the eminent Professor Brandt, of St. Petersburg, obtained an adult skull, 

 together with bones of the front and hind limbs. By a careful comparison of 



* See ' La Caverne Bize, et les especes animates dont les debris y sont associes & ceux de 1'homme,' par 

 P. Gervais et Brinckmann ; Hontpellier, 1864 ; and Van Beneden, < Eapport sur les collections polytech- 

 niques de 1'universite de Louvain,' 1868. 



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