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magnified, is given at a", fig. 8. But the help which these draughtsmen of the old cave- 
dwelling people have undesignedly contributed to the modern man of science does not 
end here. The difference between the “ cauda undique setosa ”* and the “ cauda extre- 
mitate setosa ”f is such as could not have escaped the sharp-eyed hunter, nor have failed 
to be represented in the outlines by the artist of the tribe. Hitherto, so far as I learn, 
at Bruniquel, only the heads of the contemporary wild horses have been engraved on 
bone. But in the Cavern of La Madelaine, Dordogne, the antler of a Reindeer (a shed 
one) was found covered with more coarsely graven outlines of entire Equines (fig. 9), 
Fig. 9. 
Outline of horse, cut on a Reindeer’s antler, from a Cave in the Dordogne. 
showing the large or coarse head, characteristic of the wild animal, the short prick-ears, 
and a tail which unquestionably indicates the wholly clothed character of that part in 
the true or restricted Equus of modern mammalogists. It is repeated in each of seven 
outlines cut on this antler, is short, or does not extend beyond the hock, and in none is 
there the slightest indication of a terminal expansion or tuft suspended on a slender 
stem as in Zebras and Asses. 
No satisfactory evidence of an aboriginal feral Equus caballus has yet been obtained 
by the Naturalist. No specimen of such exists in any Museum. The doubts expressed 
by Forster and- Pallas as to the alleged wild horses of the Ukraine, viz. that they might 
be descendants from strayed domestic horses, have not yet been cleared up. I believe 
the illustrations contained in the present Paper to be the best, if not sole, evidences of 
the wild originals of some of our domesticated breeds. Like the alleged wild horses of 
Prussia, those of Aquitaine, in the time of the flint-armed hunters and cave-dwellers, 
were doubtless “ shy and difficult of capture, but very good venison” J. 
* Linn^us, char, of Equus caballus, Systema Naturae, vol. i. p. 100. 
t LiNXiEtrs, char, of Equus asinus, Systema Naturae, vol. i. p. 100. 
± Erasmus Stella, de Origiue Borussorum, quoted by Colonel Hamilton Smith, op. cit. p. 158. 
