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Montmartre has also furnished the bones of a 

 fox different from ours, and which also differs 

 from the jackals, isatises, and the various species 

 of foxes peculiar to America * ; those of a carni- 

 vorous animal allied to the racoons and coaties, 

 but larger than any known species f ; those of a 

 particular species of civet ; and of two or three 

 other carnivora, which it has not been possible to 

 determine, from the want of tolerably complete 

 portions. 



What is still more remarkable, is, that there 

 are skeletons of a small sarigue, allied to the 

 marmose, but different, and consequently of an 

 animal belonging to a genus which is at the pre- 

 sent day confined to the New World . Skele- 

 tons of two small glires, of the genus myoxus ||, 

 and a skull belonging to the genus sciurus ^, have 

 also been collected. 



Our gypsum deposits are more fertile in bones 

 of birds than any of the other strata either ante- 

 rior or posterior to it. Entire skeletons, and parts 



* " Researches," vol. iii. p. 26?. 



| Id. voL iii. p. 269. 



J Id. vol. iii. p, 272, 



Id. vol. iiL p. 284. 



|| Id. vol. iii. p. 297 and 300. 



1F Id. vol. v. part ii. p. 506. 



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