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The Scottish Naturalist 



No. 50.] 1910 [February 



EDITORIAL. 



We have been favoured by the author, Dr James Ritchie, 

 with a reprint of an interesting paper, entitled " The Animal 

 Remains from Constantine's Cave, Fife Ness." ^ The material 

 examined was derived from a stratum 2I feet thick in its 

 thickest part and about a foot below the present surface. It 

 was associated with many relics of human habitation, and 

 revealed a great variety of animal life. The list of mammals 

 represented includes the Wild Cat, Badger, and Grey Seal, 

 a species of Whale (possibly the Pilot Whale), the Wild Boar, 

 Red Deer, Short-horned Celtic Ox, Turbary Sheep, Horse, 

 and Rabbit. Of birds we notice the Shag, a species of Goose, 

 a Gull (possibly the Herring Gull), and the Red-throated 

 Diver. Some bones of a fish's skull, probably the Haddock, 

 were also found, while many " pincers " of the Edible Crab 

 and five species of Mollusca close the list. The bones of 

 many of the mammals showed evidence of the work of human 

 implements, most of which appear to have been fashioned 

 from the antlers of the Red Deer. 



The food of the Crossbill forms the subject of a recent 



^ Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. xliv., 

 pp. 251-55. 



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