CHAP. X. BONES OF MAMMALIA FOUND AT AURIGNAC. 185 



fingers and thumb being placed in the two opposite depres- 

 sions during the operation. Among the bone instruments 

 were arrows without barbs, and other tools made of rein- 

 deer horn, and a bodkin formed out of the more compact 

 horn of the roe-deer. This instrument was well shaped, 

 and sharply pointed, and in so good a state of preservation 

 that it might still be used for piercing the tough skins of 

 animals. 



Scattered through the same ashes and earth were the 

 bones of the various species of animals enumerated in the 

 subjoined lists, with the exception of two, marked with 

 an asterisk, which only occurred in the interior of the 

 grotto : — 



1. Carnivora. 



Num'ber of individnale. 



1. C/;-si(s speZaswa (cave-bear) ,....,.. 5 — 6 



2. Ursxta Arctos? (brown bear) 1 



3. J/eZes Taxtj* (badger) 1 — 2 



4. Putorms vulgaris (pole-cat) 1 



d.'^Fc'lis speliea (cave-lion) 1 



6. Felis Ca<«» /eras (wild-cat) 1 



7. HijieHa spelxa (c&ve-hyena,) «... 5 — 6 



8. Canis Lupus (wolf) 3 



9. Canis Vulpes (fox) 18 — 2« 



2. Herbivora. 



1. Eleplias primirieniu8 (mammoth, two molars). 



2. Rhinoceros f/cAoc^ nuts (Siberian rhinoceros). „.., 1 



3. Eqaus Caballus (harse) 12 — 15 



4. Equus Asinus? (ass) 1 



bJ^^Sus Scrofa (pig, two incisors). 



6. Cervus Elaphim (stag) 1 



7. Megacvros Hiheniicus (gigantic Irish deer) 1 



8. C. Capreol us (roehnck) 3 — 4 



9. C. Tarandus {remdeer) 10 — 12 



10. Bison Euro2}aeus {eLurochs) 12 — 15 



The bones of the herbivora were the most numerous, and 

 all those on the outside of the grotto which had contained 

 marrow Avere invariably split open, as if for its extraction, 

 many of them being also burnt. The spongy parts, more- 



