222 KELIQTTLE AQUITAN1CJE. 



Iceland, and in North America, according to Mitchell, Storer, Hichardson, Dekay, 

 Giinther, and other naturalists ; the Salmon reaching very high latitudes. 



The Mammalian Fauna of the Reindeer Age is that of the boreal regions of 

 to-day ; the Birds killed hy the Cave-dwellers of Pe'rigord are the Birds of this 

 region ; the Shells they used for ornament, obtained from the shores of the 

 Atlantic and Mediterranean, are such as live there still. It is therefore highly 

 probable, not to say certain, that the existing Salmo salar was the common 

 Salmon of the Dordogne, affording food to the Cave-dwellers of the Ve"zere. 



Two of the Salmon tribe were caught by these people one the Salmon, and 

 the other a smaller fish, a Trout, doubtless the Common Trout (Salmo fario or 

 Truttafario). This species, common in Scandinavia, Iceland, Scotland, England, 

 Ireland, Germany, and France, is far less abundantly distributed among the 

 hearth-stuffs of the Caves than the Salmon, though we have seen numerous ver- 

 tebrae from the Stations of La Madelaine, Laugerie Basse, Bruniquel, Gourdan, 

 La Vache-noire, &c. 



The habits of the Salmon explain, perhaps, how it is that this fish is found in 

 certain Stations of the " Reindeer Age," though wanting in others namely, 

 because the Salmon ascends only rivers with calcareous beds, and it appears that 

 they avoid those flowing on granite or the old rocks. In North America the 

 Salmon have the same habits ; and according to Mackenzie the river Anah-yoe, 

 abounding with Salmon, runs on limestone. 



It is thought pretty generally that the Man of the "Reindeer Age" was 

 stationary there being found, among the debris of their cooking, accumulated in 

 the caves and shelters where they lived, bones of Fawns and Deer of all ages. 

 According to M. E. Piette, however, who has studied with great care the Cave of 

 Gourdan in the Pyrenees, this simply proves that they did not come here to 

 reside for a fixed period ; they came there to lodge at one season or another 

 indifferently, coming and going according to the quantity of game at hand 

 (' Bulletin de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris,' 2 e se"r., vol. viii. pp. 413 &c., 

 1874; and 'MateViaux' &c., 2 e se*r., vol. v. pp. 53 &c.). 



It is now an accepted fact, it seems, that the people of the Reindeer Age were 

 migratory. We might perhaps suppose that the shells from the Mediterranean 

 and the Atlantic, with which they loved to decorate themselves, were procured 

 by exchange; but we cannot deny that these people had themselves seen the 

 marine animals, figures of which they engraved, very often with a scrupulous 

 exactness, as if the animal had been drawn from nature. M. Piette, among the 

 objects collected by him in the Cave of Gourdan, has one representing a Seal ; 



