54 Vertebrate Palaeontology of Cambridgeshire 



of the roebuck (Capreolus capreolus) from the Cambridge Fens, 

 where they are comparatively common, are figured on p. 487 

 of Owen's British Fossil Mammals and Hirds. Nearly, if 

 not quite, as abundant in these deposits are remains of the 

 wild boar (Sus scrofa ferus}. In the Zoological Museum is 

 part of the skull of a walrus (Odobwnus rosmarus) from the 

 Fens near Ely. Bird remains from the fens of the county 

 appear to be rare, or, at all events, have received but little 

 attention from palaeontologists. The late Prof. Milne- 

 Edwards 1 however records bones of the coot from these de- 

 posits; while Prof. A. Newton 2 has described two specimens 

 of the humerus (belonging to as many individuals) of a species 

 of pelican from these deposits. These last specimens, together 

 with other remains of the same genus described by Dr C. W. 

 Andrews 3 from prehistoric deposits at Glastonbury, Somerset, 

 appear to indicate that pelicans bred in England at no very 

 distant epoch. The wild goose is also recorded. 



From the well-known gravel-pits at Barn well, near Cam- 

 bridge, as well as from similar deposits in other parts of the 

 county, have been obtained remains of the usual species of 

 Pleistocene mammals. The Barnwell list 4 includes the cave 

 lion (Felis leo spelaea), the aurochs, the great Irish deer, the 

 Pleiostocene hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius major\ 

 the wild horse (Equus caballus fossilis), the woolly rhinoceros 

 (Rhinoceros antiquitatis), the mammoth (Elephas primigenim), 

 and the straight-tusked elephant (E. antiquus). Of the last- 

 mentioned species an imperfect lower jaw from Whittlesea is 

 described by Prof. Leith Adams 5 . A mammoth's tusk from 

 Cambridge, measuring five feet in length, was purchased by 

 the Royal College of Surgeons in 1842 6 ; and Prof. Leith 



1 Oiseaux Fossiles de la France, pi. cvi. 



2 Ibid. 1868, 363, and Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871, 702; see also 

 Dictionary of Birds, 702. 



3 Ibid. 1899, 351. 



4 See Seeley, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xxii. 476 (1866). 



5 " British Fossil Elephants " (Mon. Pal. Soc.), p. 178. 

 See Owen, op. cit. 248. 



