Zoological Society. 301 
Cervus, Lepus, Arvicola, Mus, Ursus speleus, U.priseus(?), Felis spelea, 
Hyena spelea, Canis lupus, C. vulpes, Meles taxus, and Mustela. 
Coprolites of Hyena, gnawed bones of Bos, Equus, and Cervus, and 
a great abundance of the detached molars of Horse, gave the cave the 
undoubted character of having been a Hyzna’s den. In the super- 
ficial sand on the stalagmite, the antlers of a Reindeer and some 
human bones were found. 
General remarks on the distribution of the Mammalian remains in 
the different caverns were offered, and the special anomalies pointed 
out; and, after a comparative review of the fauna of the Gower 
bone-caves in relation to that of other cave-districts of England 
in particular, and of Europe in general, the author arrived at the 
following conclusions as being consistent with the existing state 
of our knowledge :— 
1. That the Gower Caves have probably been filled up with their 
mammalian remains since the deposition of the Boulder-clay. 
2. That there are no mammalian remains found elsewhere in the 
ossiferous caves in England and Wales referable to a fauna of a 
more ancient geological date. 
3. That Elephas (Loxodon) meridionalis and Rhinoceros Etruscus, 
which occur in, and are characteristic of, the “Submarine forest 
Bed” that immediately underlies the Boulder-clay on the Norfolk 
coast, have nowhere been met with in the British caverns. 
4. That Elephas antiquus with Rhinoceros hemitechus, and E. pri- 
migenius with Rh. tichorhinus, though respectively characterizing 
the earlier and later portions of one period, were probably contem- 
porary animals; and that they certainly were companions of the 
Cave-Bears, Cave-Lions, Cave-Hyznas, &c., and of some at least of 
the existing mammalia. 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
June 12, 1860.—Dr. Gray, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF TWENTY-TWO New Srecies or HUMMING- 
Birps. By Joun Gouxp, F.R.S., etc. 
As my work on the Trochilide is now fast drawing to a close, I have 
examined with care and minute detail my entire collection of this 
great and important family of birds, and I find therein more than twenty 
‘species, which, I believe, have not yet received specific appellations. 
Many of these I have had by me for years, while others have been 
-more recently acquired. Of the specific value of those described in the 
following pages I am perfectly satisfied ; but in case any doubt should 
be entertained on the subject, my collection is, and will be, at all times 
accessible for their elucidation. 
Grypvus Sprx1, Gould. 
Crown of the head bronzy-brown; upper surface and all the tail- 
feathers very rich reddish-bronze ; wings reddish purple-brown ; line 
above the eye buff; ear-coverts dark-brown ; throat, chest and under 
surface deep reddish-buff; under tail-coverts bronzy, each slightly 
