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REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLII : 
Sur des nouvelles Cavernes a Ossements de I’Aude. Par 
M. Marcel de Serres (Instit. 1842, p. 388). 
These caverns are found in the neighbourhood of Carcassone (Aude), 
at the little town of Cannes, in transition limestone, which furnishes the 
finest marble in the South of France. There has hitherto been disco- 
vered, — 1. Equus, most abundant ; out of some small bones, M. de Serres 
might describe a second smaller species ; 2. Cervus, abundant, of small 
stature : 3. Capreolus, identified by the teeth : 4. Antelope, among 
which will be distinguished the Chamois: 5. Capra cegagrus, “ a species 
easily distinguished by its back teeth” (?) : 6. Bos intermedins : 7. Lepus, 
tolerably abundant : 8. Ursus, numerous, but the portions were not so 
complete as to render the species recognisable : 9. Canis, partly agreeing 
with the Household Dog, partly with the Fox ; 10. Hyoena sp>el<jea, not 
abundant: 11. classed by the author, from the remains, partly 
with the F. leopardns and F. servaL Among the bones of Birds were 
recognised an Owl, Buzzard, and Quail. 
Lund has imparted the newest discoveries of his continued 
investigation into the Brazilian Caverns, containing the bones 
of buried antediluvian Mammalia. 
These are to be found in a treatise, dated Logoa Santa, 30th 
January, 1841, which is epitomized in the “ Oversigt over det k. danske 
Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger i Aaret, 1841, af Orsted. Kio- 
benh., 1842, p. 16.” Lund has discovered, up to this time. 111 species, 
divided into fifty-four genera, whilst the living Mammalia of the same 
country, only amount to eighty-nine species, belonging to forty-nine 
genera. Among the most important of the newly discovered fossil species 
are, — two species of ant-eaters, very like the Myrmecophaga juhata, 
and tetradactyla ; two species of Dasypus, Wagl., one of which is of 
the size of the Tatu mirim, the other (D. sidcattis) somewhat bigger 
than D. pimctatiis: a dwarfish species of Megatherium, somewhat larger 
than the Tapir (Megatherium Laurillardi) : a new genus of the family 
of the Sloths, distinguished by its large canine teeth, like those of the 
Cholcepus (Oenotherium gigas) ; and, lastly, the Otter, a species not 
hitherto discovered among antediluvian remains. 
Among the corrections of his earlier labours, the most important is, in 
regard to his former statement about the occurrence of the Hyaena — 
more complete remains have convinced him, that they belong to a genus 
between the dog and cat ; he names it Smilodon, on accomit of its firmly 
compressed almost lancet formed canine teeth. This animal was of the 
size of the lion, but of a heavier structure, and its canine teeth exceed, in 
size, those of all hitherto known beasts of prey. 
Lund gives a very ample description of the Platyonyx . He places 
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