1831.] Note on certain Animal Remains from Ava. 
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HI. Note on certain Specimens of Animal Remains from Ava, 
presented by James C alder. Esq. V. P. to the Museum of the Asiatic 
Society, by Hugh Falconer, Esq. A. M. and M. D. 
[Read at the Meeting of the Physical Class As. Soc. 20th April, 1831.] 
These specimens of Ava fossils were procured, with some difficulty, from the 
neighbourhood of Prome, where the collection, by Dr. Crawfurd, had been previ- 
ously made : we may hope ere long, to have a richer assortment, through the exer- 
tions of Major Burney ; but in the meantime, it may be interesting to the Society 
to know what individual fossils of the number have been identified with those taken 
hence, by Dr. Crawfurd. 
It must be premised, that the following attempt at discriminating the animals to 
which the fossil bones belonged, is submitted to the Society with great diffidence, 
and is confessedly imperfect. Had the means of comparison been more extensive, 
an accurate list might have been made out : but no recourse could be had to the 
skeletons of any analogues ; and the only available sources of information, were 
Cuvier’s Ossemens Fossiles, and Memoirs in the Geological Transactions, by 
Buckland and Clift. 
Further, this note does not profess to contain any thing original, or to make 
any addition to the list of fossils from Ava, already discovered. 
The remains are confined to quadrupeds. There are no marine nor fresh water 
shells, nor any specimen of the deposit in which the remains are found ; but it is 
believed to be the same diluvial formation in which the remains of mammalia are 
found in Europe and America. 
The specimens consist of fragmented portions of bone ; many of them coloured 
with iron. The fragments mostly angular, and few of them bearing marks of 
attrition. 
Of the Pachydermata , there are bones belonging to two genera, the rhinoceros 
and mastodon. 
No. 1. A. Is a fragment consisting of a longitudinal and vertical section, of a 
molar tooth of a mastodon, with a portion of the attached jaw, and a nearly en- 
tire fang. The characters are not sufficiently marked to determine the species, 
but it seems to approach most nearly the mastodon lasidens of Mr. Clift. (Geol. 
Trans, vol. ii. p. 11.) 
No. 1. B. Is a portion of the middle of the femur of a mastodon. 
No. 2. A. Is a portion of the lower jaw of the left side of a rhinoceros, contain- 
ing a perfect tooth, which has been accidentally divided. It has belonged to an animal 
now extinct, and of larger size than the rhinoceros monoceros of this country. 
The form of the tooth is different from that found by Mr. Crawfurd, but as the 
characters vary, from wearing, with the age of the animal, it is no easy matter to 
determine whether or not it belongs to a different species. It resembles very closely 
in form the rhmoceros Eriques of the Ossemens Fossiles of Cuvier. 
^*o. 3. a , b , & e. Are vertebrae from different parts of the spinal column of 
Crocodiled#. Some of the bones carried to Europe, were found to belong to th« 
leptorhynchus of the Ganges, or a species very nearly allied. 
No. 4. c, b } e, & e. Are osseous fragments of two large genera of turtle, the 
em y s and tryonyx. The remains of these animals bear a large proportion to the 
other bones. 
There are several specimens, comprising the greater part of the collection, to 
which no names have been attempted to be given. Some of them are well marked, 
