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CHRONOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND LAND OSCILLATIONS
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ment, which also indicates approximately the number of individuals represented :—


TABLE OF THE FAUNA.



Extinct Animals









Animals withdrawn from the district












Still living in district



Domesticated






















To the North


To the Alps



To America

To the North and the Alps



To the adjoining districts and countries

























1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.

14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.

24.
25.
26.

27.
28.

Cave-lion
Mammoth
Rhinoceros
Urus.
Reindeer
Glutton
Arctic Fox
Chamois
Ibex
Alpine Hare
Marmot
Wapiti(?)
Red Fox

Ptarmigan
Wisent
Red Stag
Bear
Lynx
Wild Cat
Wolf.
Wild Swan
Wild Goose
Sea Eagle

Common Fox
Field Hare(?)
Raven

Dog(?)
Horse

3
4-6
1-2
1
250
4
3
1
1
500
1
1
40-50

80
6
6
2-3
3
1
17
1
2
1

2-3
2
3

1
20


Schussenried, Wurtemberg.

The Palæolithic station of Schussenried was situated on the watershed of the extensive plateau which separates the valley of the Danube from the lake basin of Constance. The whole district, especially on the Danubian slope, is covered by a thick mantle of peat. In 1865, workmen engaged in cutting a canal 4 metres or more in depth, to rectify some changes at the source of the river Schussen, turned out large quantities of bones and antlers, which they took to be those of ordinary deer. Some of these fell into the hands of M. Vallet, a chemist in the village of Schussenried, and were preserved at his residence as curiosities. Professor Krauss of Stuttgart, who happened to be in the neighbourhood, on seeing these bones and horns at