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E. J. Pictet on the Diluvian Period. 351 
many spe 
(1. major, H. minor, H. Pentlandi, and the hippopotamus of the 
The horse of Pézenas — to be another species differ- 
Ent from the one mentioned above as related to the existing 
se. 
The genus Cervus has been numerous from the commencement 
of the diluvian epoch, for to the species now living, and which, 
as I have said, existed then, is to be added the beautiful giant 
Stag of the peat bogs of Ireland (Cervus euryceros), the great deer 
the Sémme (Cervus dama giganteus) the Cervus martalis, 
ange, and many species from caverns described by Marcel 
€ Serres, 
._ Among the other species of ruminants lost from our fauna, it 
18 hecessary to mention the Antelope Christoli, M. de Serres, t 
Dichotoma, Gervais, and Ibex Cebennarum, Gervais. 
A. Jour. Sct.—Szconp Serms, Vor. XXXI, No. 93.—May, 1861. 
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