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little distance behind the horns is an indication of deep-set, sharp, longish ears, 

 pointing somewhat backward. Below the chin appears a tuft of hair, or beard. 

 By these features the figure is referable to an Ibex, although the rather full 

 forehead and the swollen crest behind the ears are somewhat opposed to this 

 conclusion. The smallness of the horns indicates probably a young or female 



Fig. 28. (See also B. Plate XIX. & XX. fig. 2.) 



individual. The Woodcut, fig. 28, gives the shape of the muzzle better than 

 the lithograph. 



The ancient artist has curiously figured both hind legs of the animal as 

 turned, at the hocks, abruptly forwards and upwards, so that the hoofs (distinctly 

 cloven) touch the belly, although there was sufficient space on the piece of horn 

 for these limbs to have been given in their natural position. 



"Whether the hind legs were distorted merely by bad drawing, or at the 

 engraver's caprice, or from his recollection of a ham-strung or otherwise 

 wounded beast or, having begun with a sketch of a recumbent animal, he 

 finished it otherwise or, meaning to indicate an animal scratching itself, he 

 put both legs inadvertently in one position, it seems impossible to determine. 



The figure is deficient of tail and croup by fracture ; and the fore legs, stand- 

 ing well posed, are truncated above the fetlock at the natural edge of the antler- 

 palm ; and they are transversely scored by accidental slips of the graving tool. 



There is no drawing on the other side of the specimen. 



From Laugerie Basse. 



"Fig. 3. On a broad palm of a Reindeer's brow-antler, unfortunately much broken, 

 we have here a bold and characteristic outline of a Bovine animal *, judging 



* See ' Annales Sc. Nat.,' he. svprti tit. pp. 236, 237. 



