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EELIQTJI^E AQTJITAJSTKLE. 



(Laugerie Basse and La Madelaine), and in those of the Pyrenees (Bagneres de 

 Bigorre, La Vache, and Gourdan). The ancient people of this part of Prance 

 have also figured this Fish, as shown on an engraved Bear's tooth* (fig. 85), 



Fig. 85. 



Outline of a Pike on a Bear's tooth, from the Duruthy Cave, near Sorde : collected by MM. Lartet and 



Chaplain Duparc. 



discovered by MM. Louis Lartet and Chaplain Duparc in the Duruthy Cave, near 

 Sorde. 



The Pike (Esox lucius) appears to have been less used for food than the Salmon 

 by the Aborigines. Common throughout Europe, from Scandinavia to Turkey, 

 Northern Asia, and North America, and frequenting turbaries and marshes espe- 

 cially, the Pike attains a large development in cold countries ; and its habitat 

 doubtless explains why it is somewhat rare in the Caverns of South France, 

 situated on the great rivers ; whilst it is met with more frequently in Stations of 

 later age, generally established near marshy districts. 



Together with the Salmon and the Pike some other Fishes were taken by the 

 Cave-dwellers of Pe"rigord. We have found in their hearth-stuffs the remains of 

 the White Bream (Abramis Uicca), now common in Holland, England, France, 

 and Germany ; also remains of the Bream or Carpbream (A. brama), which lives 

 in Sweden and as far as the Pyrenees, of the Dace (Squaliiis leuciscus), now 

 distributed from the north of Europe to the Pyrenees, and of the Chub (S. cephalus), 

 which has the same range. The Aborigines figured also some of these Fishes. 

 There can be no mistaking a Cyprinoid in the Fish outlined on a piece of antler, 

 from La Madelaine, in B.Plate II. fig. 1, thus described above, at page 13 : 

 "A cylindrical piece of Reindeer Horn, on which are carved two outlines of 

 Fishes, one on each side. In the figure here given the form of the head, the 

 shape of the gills, an obscure indication of the back-fin, and the proportions and 

 general appearance permit us to refer this Fish to one of the freshwater kind, 

 probably of the Cyprinoid (Carp) family Similarly engraved pieces of bone, 



* See also ' Materiaux pour PHistoire ' &c., torn. cit. p. 142, fig. 37. 



