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their devouring adversaries; one part was perhaps 

 devoured, and the other lay afterwards on the floor 

 of the cave unnoticed. 



RAVEN, PIGEON, LARK, DUCK, and perhaps 

 SNIPE. The bones of these birds belong principal- 

 ly to the wing, the greatest part are those of the 

 ulna ; the reason why they were not devoured is 

 supposed by Mr. Buckland to have arisen from the 

 position of the quill feathers on them, and the small 

 quantity of fleshy matter which exists on the outer 

 extremity of the wings of birds ; the former afford- 

 ing an obstacle, and the latter no temptation to the 

 Hyaenas to devour them 



To these observations I add the discovery of 

 fragments of the horns of deer ; they were not 

 numerous, and the parts which were found were 

 those near the head. 1 had one which I brought 

 from the Cave, and which is figured in the " Geo- 

 logical Survey of the Yorkshire Coast," lately 

 published by the Rev. T. Young and Mr. Bird ; it 

 is the base of a horn, having two antlers rising out 

 of it, which appears to have fallen off from the bead, 

 and to have been brought borne by the Hyasna and 

 devoured, excepting that solid part. 



Another very remarkable proof of the residence 

 of Hyaenas here, is the discovery of their faeces in 

 the cave : it is a solid, calcareous matter, which has 

 been proved to be the excrement of animals which 

 fed on bones, resembling the substance known in 

 the old Materia Medica by the name of album gras- 

 cum ; its external form is that of a sphere irregular- 

 ly compressed, as in the faeces of Sheep, and varying 



