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2 upper camassials, 

 I distal end of a right tibia, 

 I proximal end and shaft of a right radius, 

 I fragment of the shaft of a femur. 

 Two of these bones bear " unmistakable marks of the teeth of 

 hysena." 

 Hycena. 



I fragment of a left ulna of a large species, bearing teeth- 

 marks of another animal of its own kind. 

 Mastodon arvcrnensis- 



18 teeth, exclusive of fragments, as well as many broken and 

 water-worn bones. 

 Elefhas mcridionalis. 



1 much-worn fragment of a molar. 



Rhinoceros etruscus. 



2 fragments of water-worn molars. 



Kqiins Stetionis. - 



2 upper and i lower molar. 



Cervus. 



" The Cervidae are represented at Doveholes by numerous 

 bones, all more or less fragmentar}^, and therefore very 

 difficult to determine specifically. They belong, however, 

 to one or other of the many species of Pliocene deer, and 

 agree more particularly with Cervus eiueriarum of Croizet 

 and Jobert." 

 With regard to the period to which these remains belong. 

 Professor Dawkins gives his opinion as follows : — 



" The mammalia of Doveholes belong therefore to the 

 Mastodon arvernensis fauna of the British and Continental 

 Pliocene strata, and are clearly defined from that of the Pleisto- 

 cene age, not only by the presence of characteristic Pliocene 

 forms, but by the absence of those which came into Europe at 

 the beginning of the Pleistocene, such as the cave-bear, the 



