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ENGRAVINGS OF GROTTO LA MOTJTHE. 



engraved in profile at 97 to 98 meters from the entrance and on the 

 left wall of the grotto. The dimensions of the drawing- are far from 

 being- those of the animal (0.91 meter in length from the forehead 

 to the extremity of the tail with a height of 0.52 meter). The head 

 is small and well drawn. The horns are well reproduced and almost 



Fig. 1. 



meet at their points, forming a nearly complete circle; hut they have 

 not the normal implantation of the horns of the bison. Under the 

 lower jaw are seen numerous hairs. As to the hump which, above all, 

 characterizes this bovid, it is enormous and, as just said, out of pro- 

 portion with the dimensions of the animal. It begins behind the first 



cervical vertebra 1 , and extends back of the sacral vertebra? or almost 

 to the origin of the tail. The latter, relatively large at its insertion, 

 is incurved in a quite pronounced fashion from above lownward, and 

 ends in a tapering point. The well-made legs, as well as the hind 

 quarters, are, however, a little too thin and long. The ventral line is 

 slightly convex downward. 



