REMARKS ON THE CRO-MAGNON FAUNA. 93 



VIII. 



REMARKS ON THE FAUNA FOUND IN THE CAVE OF CRO-MAGNON. BY M. EDOUAHD LAKTKT. 



THIS Fauna is represented both by the osseous remains found associated with the 

 Sepulture in this Cave, and by those found in the layers of Hearth-stuff. See tin- 

 description of the Cave and its contents, pages 62 et seq. This Fauna comprises 

 fourteen or fifteen species of Mammals, and one Bird (represented by a single 

 bone). 



The Carnivora are represented among others by a Bear, of great size, of 

 which a metatarsal and two phalanges have been found ; but they do not present 

 sufficiently well marked forms for accurate specification. 



Another Carnivore, of great size, is referable to the genus Felis, and is repre- 

 sented by a portion of an upper jaw, containing the sockets of the upper penul- 

 timate and of the last or carnassial premolars. This fragment can be fairly 

 identified with the same bone in Felis speleea. There is also half of a canine 

 tooth, which appears to have belonged to a somewhat smaller and younger 

 individual. The fang of this canine is marked with two notches made by a very 

 sharp cutting instrument. 



There is also the lower jaw of a large Canis, not distinguishable from the 

 existing Wolf. Some other specimens are referable to other species or varieties 

 of Canis, of which one does not seem to differ from our common Fox ; whilst the 

 other, smaller in its proportions, presents some anatomical peculiarities which I 

 have not been able to match in the many skulls of the Fox in the Museum of 

 Natural History at Paris. 



There was also found at this Sepulture the femur of a Spermophile, but of an 

 undetermined species. Some years ago we found in the neighbouring Cave of 

 Les Eyzies half of a lower jaw and some cervical vertebrae of a Spermophile, 

 which Dr. Falconer regarded as closely approaching Spermophihis erythrogemts : 

 it certainly differs from that found by M. Desnoyers in the Bone-breccia of Mont- 

 morency, which has been compared by some with Sp. citillus, and by others with 

 Sp. Richardsoni. 



Two other Rodents, of the genus Lepus, but of a different size, have left their 

 remains at the entrance of the Cave. 



In one of the layers of hearth-stuff was found a good portion of an Elephant's 



