114 Spencer and Wnlcott : 



tious than his predecessors, has usually the orreatest repug- 

 nance to enter such dark and uncanny places as caves, let alone 

 utilise them as places of residence and refuge. The so-called 

 cave drawings that have often been described, are usually made 

 on the Avails of comparatively shallow excavations at the base 

 of cliffs to which the term rock-shelter rather than cave is 

 applicable. If, th^n, lie has not changed, he has never been 

 strictly a cave dweller, and certainly nothing has yet been 

 discovered of sufficient importance which could in any way sup- 

 port a contrary opinion. There appears to be. so far as we 

 know at present, an entire absence of his work and implements, 

 ^'hich are so commonly found in the caves of Europe in associa- 

 tion with the remains of extinct animals. We can only con- 

 clude then, in view of the absence of definite proof that man 

 was at any time an occupant of the cave in which the Buchan 

 bone was found, that the cuts were made by Thylorolen. 



3. — The Colongulac Boxe. 



The bone, to which we have applied the above title, was 

 presented to the National Museum, along with other specimens 

 in 1909, by Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S., an officer of the Forests 

 Department. Mr. Hardy informs us that they were unearthed 

 from a low mound near the south-eastern end of Lake Colon- 

 gulac, near Camperdown, in the south-west of Victoria, by the 

 late Mr. Wm. Adeney, who owned the Chocolyn estate about 

 1847-48. They passed into the hands of his nephew. Mr. Day, 

 an officer of the Lands Department, who gave them to Mr. 

 Hardy, and he almost immediately presented them to the 

 Museum. 



Lake Colongulac (formerly also known as Lake Timboon) is 

 the most interesting of Victorian localities where mammalian 

 remains have been found. The geology of the neighbourhood, 

 including some notes on the occurrence of remains, has been 

 briefly dealt with by Dr. T. S. HalU, and a more comprehen- 

 sive report in " The Geology of the Camperdown and Mount 

 Elephant Districts " was made by Messrs. H. J. Grayson and 

 D. J. Mahony.2 No bones have been found ?';? situ as far as 



1. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic, vol. xii.. i>t. I. pp. 107-111, 18S!). 



2. Memoirs Geol. Survey of Victoria, No. f), 1910. 



