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are small. We are not yet acquainted with its incisores nor its feet. 

 I have only one species, of the size of a Siam hog. 



The genus adapts has in the same way but one species at most, not 

 larger than a rabbit. This is also found in our gypsum-quarries, and 

 must have had a close alliance with anoplotheria. 



Thus we have mentioned nearly forty species of pachydermata, belong- 

 ing to genera now quite extinct, to the sizes and shapes of which we 

 have no closer existing resemblance than in the tapirs and a daman. 



This great number of pachydermata is the more remarkable, as the 

 ruminantia, now so numerous, in the genera of stags and gazelles, and 

 which attain so vast a size in those of oxen, giraffes, and camels, are 

 rarely to be found in the strata to which we have been alluding. 



I have never detected the smallest relic in our gypsum -quarries, and 

 all that has come to me consists of some fragments of a stag, of the 

 size of the roebuck, but of another species, collected from the palseo- 

 theria of Orleans, and in one or two other small fragments from 

 Switzerland, both perhaps of equivocal origin. 



But our pachydermata were not consequently the only inhabitants 

 of the countries where they lived. In our gypsum-quarries, at least 

 we find with them carnivora, glires, many sorts of birds, crocodiles 

 and tortoises, and these two latter also accompany them in the molasse 

 and marly rock of the middle and south of Fiance. 



At the he^d of the carnivora I placed a bat very recently disco- 

 vered at Montmartre, and of the proper genus vespertilio*. The exist- 

 ence of this genus at so remote an epoch is the more surprising, as 

 neither in this formation, nor in those which follow it, have I been 

 able to discover any trace either of cheiroptera nor of quadrumana. No 

 bones, no tooth of monkey nor maki, however, presented themselves to 

 me in my long researches. 



Montmartre has also produced for me the bones of a fox different 

 from ours, and equally different from the jackals — isatisis, and the 

 various species of foxes which are known in America ; also the bones 

 of a carnivorous animal a-kin to the racoon and coaties, but larger 

 than any of the known species ; those of a peculiar species of civet 

 cat ; and of two or three other carnivora which could not be deter- 

 mined for want of parts sufficiently perfect." 



What is yet more singular is, that there are skeletons of a small 

 sarigue, a-kin to the marmoset, but different, and consequently of an 

 animal whose genus is now confined to the new world. We have also 



* I am indebted to the Count de Bournon for my knowledge of this; and as it is 

 not described hi my great work, I give drawings of it in Plate 2, figs. 1 and 2. 



