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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
elk and the reindeer, and at this day comprises only three species : 
the stag, the fallow deer, and the roebuck. 
The stag and the fallow deer, besides, figure only in memory in 
the catalogue of the zoological apparatus of France. I have just 
learned, by reading an interesting memoir of Mr. Isidore Geoffroi 
St. Hilaire, that the acclimation of the hog deer of India was al- 
ready a resolved problem. 
There will be a third division to take account of, that of the 
ambiguous genera, the ruminants with neither horns nor branches, 
such as the dromedary, the vigonia, etc., species not yet natural- 
ized in France. But let us not forget to mention the fruitless at- 
tempt of the Emperor Napoleon to naturalize the dromedary in 
the department of the Landes. 
The dromedary is the emblem of patriarchal slavery. For this 
reason I doubt (a priori) that it should ever succeed in acclimating 
itself on the soil of France — land of the gospel and of liberty — 
unless the Jewish race, which has not yet deserted the patriarchal 
state, implant itself decidedly on this soil, absolute sovereign, as 
formerly the Frank race. 
Many political writers who have exposed the dangers of the in- 
feodation of the roads of communication to the Jews, have not 
probably foreseen this danger in consequence of the concession of 
railroads to private companies. 
Number of the present species of the series of victims or ru- 
minants : Ten. 
The series of hunting or carnivorous quadrupeds living exclu- 
sively on flesh, prey, or rapine, is decomposed into three principal 
groups, and connects itself with the other series by ambiguous 
groups. First group, called forcers or chasers proper ; animals 
endowed with powerful noses, hamstrings of steel, and superior 
intelligence, and who associate themselves for the chase. Three 
species : Dog, wolf, and fox. 
Group of the Felines or Ambushers (guetteurs) lazy beasts, 
hunting separately, creeping toward their prey, surprising it, but 
not running it down. Three species : Lynx, wild cat, and domestic 
cat. These two last species make properly but one ; the individ- 
uals of the two families having always preserved intimate rela- 
