590 FOSSILS. 



the young ones, to superior power. I have already 

 mentioned that several of these same appearances 

 were met with in the newly discovered cave, and 

 indeed, whilst these two caves differed only, in the 

 latter being deficient in remains of the tiger, bear, 

 elephant, hippopotamus, weasel, (and these might 

 have been found, perhaps, if the cave had been 

 sooner examined) and in some trifling particulars ; 

 they correspond in other points, with great nicety. 



The bones of the rat and mouse, for instance, 

 which, in my former paper, I have inadvertently 

 stated to have been found under the stalagmite, 

 should rather have been mentioned as being placed 

 between layers of that substance, as at the Kirkdale 

 cave ; a circumstance implying that they are not of 

 the same age as the bones buried in the clay under 

 the callus. The animal I have named polecat pro- 

 ved, on closer examination of some bones of the 

 skull, since procured, to have been nearly twice the 

 size of our *' Mustek putorius," and I suggest that 

 they are the remains of an animal allied to the 

 " Mustek gulo." With regard to bones of the large 

 animals in the cave, we may suppose they were con- 

 veyed there, whilst recent, by the hyaenas, and 

 wolves, or else drifted in by the diluvial waters, with 

 the clay. In examining, very lately, some rubbish, 

 which had been removed from the cave, and employed 

 in making a pathway, I was fortunate enough to make 

 three additions to the hst of animals, a bird, the deer 

 and pig — which last, with the hippopotamus from 

 Oreston, which I have heard of, smce writing my 

 first paper, and the bear, by accidentopiitted, should 

 be appended to the table, and appropriate alterations 

 should be Ukewise made where I have drawn the 

 differences in contents, between the two caves. 



The presence of helices in the clay shews that ani- 

 mals of that kind were cotemporary with the antedi- 

 luvian quadrupeds : my specimens correspond best 

 with that variety of H. nemoralisy which has a white 

 peristome (H, hortensis, Flem,) : but we do not 



