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remains of a species very similar to the fallow- 

 deer, but a third larger, * and prodigious quanti- 

 ties of horns, very much resembling those of our 

 present stag t, as well as bones, very like those of 

 the aurochs f and domestic ox ||, two very dis- 

 tinct species, which had been erroneously con- 

 founded by the naturalists who preceded us. The 

 entire heads, however, resembling those of these 

 two animals, as well as that of the musk-ox of 

 Canada , which have often been extracted from 

 the earth, do not come from localities sufficiently 

 well determined to enable us to assert that these 

 species had been contemporaries of the great pa- 

 chydermata, of which we have made mention 

 above. 



The osseous brecciae of the shores of the Me- 

 diterranean have also afforded two species of 

 Lagomys,^ animals, the genus of which exists at 

 the present day only in Siberia ; two species of 

 rabbits **, lemmings, and rats of the size of the 



* See my " Researches," vol. iv. p. 94, 

 t Id. vol. iv. p, 98. 



J Id. vol. iv. p. 148 ; and vol. v. part ii. p. 509- 

 || Id. vol. iv. p. 150 ; vol. v. part ii. p. 510. 

 Id. vol. iv. p. 153. 

 IT Id. vol.iv.p, 199-204. 

 ** Id. vol. iv. p. 174, 177, 196; vol. v. part i. p. 55. 



