TERTIARY TERIOD BY MEANS OP THE MAMMALIA. 



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caverns containing tlio remains of wild animals now living in 

 Europe, mingled with wild or half-wild animals which had escaped 

 from their servitude to man. The principal species are given in the 



following list : — 



Wild animals. 



Beaver 



Hare 



Alpine hare . . . 



Kabbit 



Water-rat 



Wild cat 



Otter 



Marten 



Badger 



Brown bear ... 



Grisly bear 



Wolf 



Fox 



Horse 



Roe 



Stag 



Elk 



Irish elk 



Reindeer 



Urus 



Wild boar 



Domestic animals. 



Bog 



Horse 



Sheep 



Goat 



Shorthorn Bos longifrons, O w. 



Hog Sus scrofa, L. ... 



Marsh-hog S. palustris, Riit. 



. Canis familiaris, L. 

 .Eqicus ccdjallus, L... 



.Ovis aries, L 



.Capra hircus, L. 



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23. The Characteristk Prehistoric Forms. 



The most important feature of the Prehistoric period is the 

 arrival of a race of men totally distinct from those of the Pleisto- 

 cene, and in a far higher state of culture. The N'eolithic farmer 

 and herdsman first of all appears, bringing with him the domestic 

 animals of the above list, and some of the cultivated seeds. Sub- 

 sequently bronze became known., and then iron, each of these sub- 

 stances standing for an outward sign of a civilization better than that 

 which had preceded it, Thus we have the Neolithic succeeded by 

 the Bronze age, and that by tiio Iron,— the history of Britain 

 beginning late in the last of these three divisions. 



Among the wild animals the Irish elk demands especial notice, 



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