The Har Dalam Cavern, Malta, and its Contents. 



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pm. 4. 



0-014 



m. 1. 



0-023 



m. 2. 

 0-025 



It is impossible to determine a species of Ursus by the imperfect 

 detached mandible ; and the only certain statement that can be made 



FIG. 1. Left Mandibular Ramus of Ursus arctos (?) ; one-half natural size. 



in reference to the present fossil is that it does not represent a 

 dwarfed form of the extinct Cave Bear. This is proved by the com- 

 paratively simple character of pm. 4. The specimen agrees precisely 

 in size, form, and proportions with the mandible of a common 

 Brown Bear ( Ursus arctos) in the British Mnseum numbered 218, d ; 

 and hence the Maltese form may be provisionally assigned to this 

 species until the discovery of farther remains. The jaw is much 

 smaller than those from the Gibraltar caverns assigned by Busk to a 

 variety between Ursus arctos and U. fossilis. 



Cam's sp. 



The small canine tooth already referred to belongs to the left side 

 of the mandible, and probably represents a species of Canis equalling 

 the Wolf in size. Whether or not it is referable to a domestic 

 animal is as yet indeterminable. 



Elephas mnaidriensis. * 



Remains of Elephants are very rare in the Har Dalam cavern 

 only an imperfect humerus and a molar tooth having been dis- 

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