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these with the remains of the Quaternary Ruminants, I am convinced that 

 in the almost incalculable number of bones, from the Drift and the Caves of 

 France, which during the last ten years have passed through my hands, there 

 was not a fragment of a jaw, or detached teeth, or even a single fragment of a 

 limb-bone referable to the Saiga, though I have met with horn-cores (always 

 isolated) coming from six or seven different localities. In particular, a portion 

 of the frontal bone still supporting the two bony horn-cores, has been obtained 

 from the celebrated Cave of Chaffaut*, near Civray (Vienne), by M. Gaillard de la 

 Dionnerie, Procureur Imperial at St. Pons (He"rault). 



How, then, can we account for the frequent occurrence of the horns of the Saiga 

 in the Caves of Central and Southern France, and of no other portion whatever 

 of this animal's skeleton, except by supposing that the long, solid, and pointed 

 horns of the Saiga constituted a formidable weapon, which the Reindeer-Hunters 

 of Perigord probably obtained, by barter or commerce of some sort, from the 

 people with whom this Antelope was indigenous ? 



However that may be, I take this occasion to point out to those palaeontologists 

 who have not the skeleton or skull of the Saiga a distinctive and very important 

 character in its dentition. In the skull sent me by Professor Brandt, which 

 appears to be adult and quite normal, there are in the lower jaw, on either side, 

 only two premolars and three true molars (altogether five grinders in each 

 ramus) ; and this appears to me to be a deviation from the dentary formula of 

 Ruminants, excepting the Camel of Asia and the Llama of America. 



* In this Cave M. de la Dionnerie has found barbed arrow-heads, numerous implements, a complete 

 necklace of the canine teeth of the Stag, and an engraved stone bearing two rows of Horses at a gallop. 

 From this cave also, then known as the Cave of Savigne, were obtained the barbed weapon-head, and the two 

 engraved figures of animals on bone, which I published in 1861, in the ' Annalcs des Sciences Naturelles,' 

 4 rae serie, vol. xv. pi. 13. figs. 1 and 2. 



