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Cave-dwellers, and that its bones formed an important article for 

 the fabrication of many of their weapons of the chase, and also for 

 their needles. Eemains of Horse are abundant in the Bruniquel 

 Cave. 



Of the animals now living, but become extinct in some regions, 

 the Beaver — Castor Europceus (or Castor fiber? of Canada) from being 

 killed by man is, probably, quite extinct in Europe. Only one 

 refuge seems left to it by any chance, and that is the mouths of the 

 Danube in the Euxine Sea, where its fossil congener is, found. It 

 was formerly abundant in our Welsh rivers, even at a late date, com- 

 paratively speaking. It was scarce in the 9th century, in the 12th 

 it was only found in one river in Wales, and another in Scotland. 

 There can be no doubt the Beaver was killed off the face of the land 

 for the sake of his fur coat. His remains are abundant in the Cam- 

 bridgeshire fens, and he did his best to divert the rivers and de- 

 stroy the land for his own pleasure, but like other selfish pleasure- 

 seekers, his would-be pools became peat, and in it are embedded the 

 bones of the curious, ingenious, but destructive rodent, who aided 

 the mischief. 



In a single night, not long since, the Beaver at the Zoological 

 Gardens diverted all the water of his pond, by the introduction of 

 mud into his tank, and sent several dozen gallons of very dirty 

 water over the gravel walk. He wanted to make a dam — failing 

 which he made a mess ! 



The Lithuanian Bison — preserved by Imperial ukase of his Majesty 

 the Emperor of all the Eussias — once roamed the Prairies of Europe 

 as his congener now does those of America. But he couldn't be 

 tamed and made to plough like B. longifrons and B. taurus, and so 

 the natives killed him off, and he would be soon extinct, like his old 

 rival primigenius, but for the Emperor. 



The wild boar and the wolf were only killed yesterday. The 

 former (Sus scrofa ferox) abounded in Henry II.'s time, whilst the 

 latter (Cants lupus) survived in Ireland till 1710. Blood-money was 

 put upon his head as upon the tiger in India at the present day. The 

 present foxes are mostly re-introduced, and owe their existence to 

 Protection. The Wild-cat, Badger, Marten, Pole-cat, and even the 



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