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E. J. Pictet on the Diluvian Period, 349 
The only Pachyderms of the present fauna yet found in our 
Quaternary deposits are three, the wild boar, the horse and the ass. 
Among Ruminants have been enumerated all our present deer, 
the deer properly so-called, the reindeer, the moose deer, and 
_. the roe-buck.. The fallow deer is not comprised in this last, but, 
as is well known, it is not native in Central Europe. There 
animals, modern discoveries authorize us to add man. this, 
as I have said elsewhere,* appears to demonstrate that man has 
to the fauna which then lived in 
What we have said of mammifers ma firmed 
ay also be a of 
birds and reptiles; but upon this part of the subject I shall not 
enter into details, for these classes are less known and do not 
furnish results so certain. The examination of a treatise on pa- 
leontology is sufficient to show that the existing species are al- 
ready indicated in the Diluvian deposits. 
The terrestrial and fluviatile mollusks are in the same cate- 
gory. Thus with the bones of the Hlephas primigenius are 
* Bibl. Univ. (new series), tome vii, p. 364. March, 1860, 
