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MM. de Marschall, in their Researches respecting the Origin and Development of the present order of the World. Giessen, 1802.

Bertrand,--Periodical Renewal of the Terrestrial Continents. Hamburgh, 1799.

My work has, in fact, proved how far this inquiry was yet new when I commenced it, notwithstanding the excellent labours of Camper, Pallas, Blumenbach, Merk, Sömmering, Rosenmüller, Fischer, Faujas, Home, and other learned men, whose works I have most scrupulously cited in such of my chapters as their researches are connected with.

This is more particularly noticed in the Chapter on Elephants in the first volume of Professor Cuvier’s Recherches.

See the history of the Rhinoceros in the first part of the second volume of Professor Cuvier’s Recherches.

See the chapter on the Hippopotamus, in the first volume of Recherches.

Hist. Anim. Lib. ii. cap. 1.

Jul. Capitol., Gord. iii. cap. 23.

Antilope Gnu, Gmel.

Pliny, Lib. viii. cap. 32.; and Ælian, Lib. vii. cap. 5.

Ælian, Anim. v. 27.

Pliny, lib. viii. cap. 15.; and lib. xi. cap. 37.

Ælian, Anim. xiv. 14.

Opp. Cyneg., ii. v. 445. et seq.

Pliny, lib. viii. cap. 21.

See the great Work upon Egypt, Antiq. iv. pl. 49.; and pl. 66.

Ælian, Anim. xv. 14.

Idem, Anim. iii. 34.

Arist. Hist. Anim. lib. ii. cap. 5.

Ælian, ii. 53.

Idem, ii. 20.

Idem, xv. 24.

Idem, xv. 24.

Idem, Anim. iii. 3.

Idem, iv. 32.

This is more particularly explained in the chapters upon Deer and Oxen, in the fourth volume of Professor Cuvier’s Recherches.

Aurochs is Bos Urus, Lin., not the Urus of the ancients, which latter appears now to be extinct.

Buffon having read in Du Fouilloux a mutilated passage of Gaston-Phébus, Count de Foix, in which that prince describes the chase of the rein-deer, imagined that, in the time of Gaston, this animal lived in the Pyrenees; and the printed editions of Gaston were so faulty, that it was difficult to make out, with certainty, what the author had intended to say; but having had recourse to his original manuscript, which is preserved in the Royal Library, I have ascertained that it was in Xueden and Nourvègue, (Sweden and Norway), that he relates having seen and hunted the rein-deer.