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tusk, which we naturally refer to Elephas prlmigenius. It had in great part 

 exfoliated and separated into small fragments, so that with great trouble only a 

 stump a few inches long could be dug out (see page 66). Mention has already 

 been made (page 70) of the discovery, among the human skeletons, of ornaments 

 or amulets of ivory, one of them in particular showing, by fracture, the peculiar 

 mode of exfoliation due to change by time in Elephants' tusks. 



The genus Sus, rare throughout the Stations of Perigord, is here represented 

 only by two molars and a lower tusk similar to those of the present Wild Boar. 



As for the Horse, its remains are the most numerous here at Cro-Magnon, 

 where it must have constituted the chief article of food for the people of the 

 period. 



The remains of the Reindeer are much less abundant here than we have 

 usually found to be the case in other caves in the Dordogne ; and those of the 

 Aurochs seem also to bear a like proportion. 



Some teeth only of the Common Stag (Cervus elaphus) and of the Bouquetin 

 (Capra ibex] have been found here. There are no relics of the Chamois, nor of 

 the Musk-Ox, though probably the contemporary Cave-folk ate these animals at 

 the Station of the Gorge d'Enfer, on the other side of the Vezere. 



Lastly, a single bone of a Bird has been found in the Cro-Magnon Cave. It is 

 a humerus of large size ; but it has lost its two articular extremities by old 

 fractures, so that it is only with considerable reserve that M. Alphonse Milne- 

 Edwards states that he believes it to present an aspect referable to the Crane 

 genus. 



It is remarkable that the remains of Birds are much rarer at these Stations 

 of high Palaeolithic antiquity than in those presumed to be more recent where 

 the Reindeer predominated : thus we have not found a single Bird-bone in the 

 Caves of Moustier and the Gorge d'Enfer in Dordogne; nor have I found any 

 remains of Birds in the Grotte des Pe'es in the Allier. At Aurignac in 

 Haute Garonne there have been found but few Bird-bones ; and MM. Bour- 

 geois and Delaunay have mentioned a few only as occurring in the Grotte de la 

 Chaise (Charente). Let us bear in mind that all the Stations above-mentioned 

 are characterized archaeologically by the presence of arrows of the same type as 

 those of Aurignac that is to say, with simple points, and not barbed as are those 

 of Les Eyzies, La Madelaine, Bruniquel, Massat, &c., where remains of Birds 

 abound. 



There is also another peculiarity, still more striking and significant, if it be con- 

 firmed by-and-by by more extended observations namely, that in the same Caves 



