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animal nature, may be learned from the broken bones, 

 which show that here as elsewhere they carried into 

 their caves only the legs and skulls of the larger 

 animals they killed, leaving the carcases ; though it is 

 quite possible that, like North American hunting 

 Indians, they may have stripped off portions of flesh 

 from the back, and preserved the heart, liver, &c., which 

 would of course leave no remains. 



Dupont gives lists of the animals in each layer. 

 Those in the lower of the anthropic layers consist of 

 twenty-three species of quadrupeds and some bones 

 of birds. Among the former were the mammoth, the 

 rhinoceros, two species of bear, the horse, the rein- 

 deer, two other species of deer and two bovine 

 animals. Even the lion, the hyena and the wolf 

 were eaten by these people. It is interesting to note 

 that the numerical preponderance was in favour of 

 the reindeer and the wild horse, though remains 

 were found indicating seven individuals of the mam- 

 moth, and four of the rhinoceros, as having fallen 

 a prey to the old hunters. In the highest bed the 

 number of species and the proportions of each one 

 are nearly the same, so that no material change in 

 the fauna had occurred during the occupancy of this 

 cave. It may also be noted that while Dupont calls 

 this a cave of the mammoth age, the French arch- 

 aeologists are in the habit of naming similar deposits 

 those of the reindeer age. The age of both animals 

 was in reality the same, except that in France the 

 reindeer seems to have survived the mammoth, and 



