.g KELIQULE AQUITANICJE. 



crosswise as breast-pieces on their horses. We cannot say to what use the half- 

 tooth before us may have been put. 



We may mention that the remains of the Boar are found very rarely indeed 

 in the ancient Stations of the Reindeer- Age ; and nothing has yet occurred to 

 indicate that this animal served for food to the aborigines of that period. 



From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 15. This is a Cowrie Shell ( Cypr&a), already fossilized when used, probably 

 for ornament, by the early natives of Perigord. The large cavity near its outer 

 edge is due to accidental fracture; but above, near the opening, there is a 

 trace of a hole artificially made. This shell must have come from the Faluns of 

 Touraine, according to M. Fischer (see page 43), who refers it to Cyprcea pyrrnn 

 of Gmelin (<7. sanguinolenta, Dujardin). 

 From La Madelaine. 



Figs. 16-19. These are valves of Pectiwculus gtycimeris (Linnseus and Dujardin), of 

 different sizes. Fig. 16 shows a specimen with only one hole for stringing ; the 

 three others have two such holes (one near the hinge, the other at the opposite 

 border of the shell), so that they were probably strung in a different manner. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 20 is a valve of Area Breislaki (Basterot and Dujardin). Instead of showing 

 its inner face, this shell is figured so as to show the single hole with which its 

 umbo has been bored. 

 From La Madelaine. 



Fig. 21. The First Phalangeal Bone of a hind foot of a Reindeer, with a hole on 

 its lower face, penetrating only into the cavity of the bone, and not going 

 through and through. This we have termed a Whistle; for on applying 

 the lip to the hollow of the proximal (metatarsal) articulation, and blowing 

 obliquely into the hole, we get a sharp sound analogous to that produced 

 by a cat-call, or a key used as a whistle. The first of these Whistles was 

 observed in 1860, in the burial-cave of Aurignac; but, as that was then an 

 isolated observation, I thought it prudent not to publish an account of it. 

 Since that time, however, there have been many discoveries of this kind of 

 instrument in different places ; and now specimens are not rare in collections. 

 From Laugerie Basse. 



