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on it is certainly a Ruminant with complex antlers. The animal is squatting*, 

 having the legs folded under the body. The form of the head, with the mouth 

 openf, is not sufficiently characteristic for determining the species ; but the 

 disposition of the antlers is certainly that of the Common Stag (Cervus elaphus), 

 bearing a chief branch, surmounted by a smaller one, and followed by the 

 middle branch. We may see, moreover, behind, the commencement of the top- 

 branching. The shoulder, slimmer than in the Reindeer, bears two rows of 

 hatchings or marks for hair ; and we see others on the forehead, and some 

 patches of lines thrown in here and there on the body, probably to give relief 

 to the drawing. 



On the opposite face of this specimen, which we thought to be too difficult to 

 figure, we find confusedly intermixed several engravings, amongst which, how- 

 ever, we can distinguish the leg and foot of a Horse, sufficiently well designed. 



From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 4. A very thin slice of Reindeer Horn, broken on several sides, and on which 

 is the figure of an animal somewhat difficult to define as to its specific characters. 

 The size and shortness of the shoulder, in excluding the Reindeer, the Stag, and 

 the Horse, might yet serve for a Bovine animal ; but the fracture at the attachment 

 of the horns deprives us of the means of judging if it be of this character. The 

 withers do not seem high enough for the Aurochs ; or, at least, they would do 

 only for a young individual. The marks for hair, indicated on different parts of 

 the body, are also distributed with intelligence, for the purpose of making the 

 drawing more effective. 

 From Les Eyzies. 



Fig. 5. The material here used by the old engraver is not the horn of the Reindeer, 

 but a plate from the cannon-bone or metatarsal of that animal. Of the design, 

 unfortunately, only a part remains ; it comprised at least two animals. Of one, 

 we see the hinder part ; but its croup is hidden by the head of the one that 

 follows. This last appears to us to be a Reindeer. The general attitude, the 

 form of the shoulder, and the different outlines would leave small doubt as to 

 the species to which it is to be referred, were it not more evidently confirmed by 

 the tuft of hair, characteristic of the male Reindeer, which appears under the 

 chest in front of the brisket. The head, though well set on, is short and not 



* Possibly the figure may be more correctly referred to a leaping Stag. 



t The mouth is too widely open to express the act of rumination. Possibly, however, it might represent 

 the panting or " blown " condition of a hunted Stag. 



