104 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. v. 



Pickering, as well as in southern Eussia, as far to the 

 east as the region of the Altai (Brandt). The striped 

 hyaena of Africa, and the warmer climates of Asia, dwelt 

 in the Lunel-viel l in Provence, and the African elephant, 

 now no longer found north of the Sahara, then passed 

 from the present coast of Africa northwards to Sicily, 2 

 and in Spain as far as the latitude of Madrid. 



Incoming Extinct Species. 



The above species, with the exception of some of the 

 survivals of the Pleiocene age, are alive in some part of 

 the world. With them are associated others which have 

 become extinct. 



Cuvier's beaver . . Trogontherium Cfuvieri, Ow. 



Gigantic dormouse . , Myoxus Melitensis, Falc. 



Pouched marmot 3 , . SpermopMlus ei-yfhrogenoides (?), Falc. 



Straight-tusked elephant Elephas antiquus, Falc. 



Mammoth , , , E, primigenius, Blum. 



( E. Falconeri Busk. 



Falconers elephant , , I ,, ,., . T. , 

 " 1 E. mehtensis, Falc. 



^ \ E, mnaidrensis, Adams. 



Woolly rhinoceros , . JRhinoceros tichorhinus, Guv. 



Small-nosed rhinoceros . E, leptorhinus, Ow. 



Deer of the Oarnutes , Cervus Carnutorum. 



Thick-antlered deer . C, verticornis, Dawk. 



Irish elk . . , Megaceros hibernicus, Owen. 



Pigmy hippopotamus . Hippopotamus Pentlandi, Falc. 



Cave bear . . . Ursus spelceus, Goldf. 



Among the rodents the large extinct beaver, and 

 among the deer the Cervus Carnutorum and the (7. 



1 Marcel de Serres, Mem, du Mus,, xvii PL 25." 



2 Falc., Palceont. Memoirs, ii p. 283. 



3 This is separated from the living erythrogenys by Dr. Falconer, 

 but it is by no means certain that it belongs to an extinct species. 



