ITS MAMMALIAN REMAINS 23 



end of Brighton, at Portland Bill, and at various 

 places on the coast of Devon and Cornwall. It is 

 everywhere composed of angular and unworn frag- 

 ments of the adjacent local rocks thus at Dover and 

 at Brighton it consists of broken chalk and flints, at 

 Portland of Oolitic debris, and at Baggy Point, near 

 Barnstaple, of sharp fragments of slaty rocks. It 

 contains generally very few organic remains, and 

 those are confined to the bones of land animals and 

 to land shells. The former embrace the following 

 species : 



* Elephas primigenius ... ... Mammoth. 



* antiquus 



* Rhinoceros tichorhinus... ... Woolly Rhinoceros. 



* megarhinus 



Equus caballus Horse. 



t Bison priscus ... ... ... Bison. 



Bos longif rons ... ... ... Short-horned Ox. 



Cervus elaphus ... Red Deer. 



* megaceros Gigantic Irish Deer. 



t tarandus ... ... Reindeer. ' 



Sus scrofa ... Wild Boar. 



*? Hippopotamus major ... ... Hippopotamus. 



Canis lupus Wolf. 



J Hyama crocuta Spotted Hycena. 



Ursus ... Bear. 



* Extinct species. 



t Living in England within recent times. 



J A living African species. 



The shells are all of recent species, and most 

 of them still living in this Country. 1 Snail shells 

 (Helices) largely predominate. A marsh shell (Sue- 



They have also a very wide Continental range. 



