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REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIl : 
There was found, in the newest tertiary formation of South Carolina, 
(among some bones of Mastodon, Elephant, Stag, Cetacea, Tortoises, 
Sharks), a fragment of the under jaw of a Boar, in the form and num- 
ber of the teeth very nearly approximating to the Bahirussa. Harlan 
names it Sus americanus. (Sillim. Amer. Journ. xliii. p. 143.) 
H. V. Meyer has given many valuable remarks on Christol’s descrip- 
tion of the Rhinoceros megarhinus. (Jahresb. f. Mineral, 1842, p. 585.) 
RUMINANTIA. 
In Alie Boston Journal of Nat. Hist. iv. 1 (1842), p. 1, Jack- 
son has furnished a description of the internal Structure of 
two grown Dromedaries of both sexes. 
The Cervus artisiensis, D’Orb., has been fully described by 
Pucheran. 
The description is to be found in D’Orb. Diet. Univ. d’Hist. Nat. iii. 
p. 328. The horns are very peculiar ; the rose is very small, surrounded 
by a pearled wreath ; the branch is forked from one-half to two inches, 
so that the animal seems almost four-horned. These stags inhabit the 
East Cordilleras of Bolivia, at the height of 4000 metres above the sea. 
Laurillard mentions, in the same book, that he is acquainted with 
about fifty species of antediluvian stags, and although he acknowledges 
that several nominal species are to be found amongst them, yet he still 
thinks the number of real species will be pretty abundant. 
Pusch ascribes a stag horn, found in Lithuania, to a species which had 
died out : he names it Cervus hresciensis. The reporter must, however, 
agree completely with the remark added by von Bronn. (Jahrb. fiir 
Min. 1842, p. 47.) 
Ziegler showed, from a preparation, that in a roe, the Graafian vesicle 
had already burst in August, so that this does not first occur in Novem- 
ber, as Pockel believed from his investigations. (Bericht. fiber die Vers, 
der. Naturf. zu Braunchw. s. 82.) 
In the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 1842, p. 21, 
Owen has made some remarks on the birth of a Giraffe and the foetal 
membranes ; as well as upon some of the natural and diseased appear- 
ances, which the dissection of the young animal presented. A beautiful 
plate of the mother and young is added. 
With respect to geography, it is chiefly worthy of notice, that Rfippell, 
by the immediate comparison of the Senegal Antilope redunca with the 
Abyssinian, which have hitherto been held identical, has convinced him- 
self, that the latter differs specifically from the former. He now gives 
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