450 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. 



Carnivora. Canis, one Species. A new Genus, between a 

 Dog and a Rackoon, one large species. Felis, one large species. 

 Genefta, animal allied to. Coali, animal allied to Coali, large as 

 a White Bear. 



RoDENTiA. Lepus, one small species. Many other small 

 species of Rodents not yet determined. 



RuMiNANTiA. l>o«, one species, .-^n/e/o/^e^ one species. Cerviis, 

 several species. 



Edentata. One large unknown species. 



M. de Blainville, who is about to publish an account of these 

 remains, points out their importance in illustrating the ancient 

 Zoology of France, since, in a single locality, which was formerly 

 a Basin, receiving an abundance of alluvial waters, we find con-- 

 fusedly mixed together in a Tertiary fresh-water formation, scat- 

 tered and broken bones and iVagments of skeletons of a large pro- 

 portion of the fossil Quadrupeds which are found dispersed over 

 the Tertiary strata of the rest of France, and derived from genera 

 of almost all the orders of Mammalia. — Comptes rendus, No. 3. 

 Jan. 16, 1837. These remains appear to be of the same age with 

 those of Epplesheim. 



P. 89. In September, 1835, the author saw at Liege the 

 very extensive collection of fossil Bones made by M. Schmer- 

 ling in the caverns of that neighbourhood, and visited some 

 of the places where they Avere found. Many of these bones 

 appear to have been brought together like those in the cave 

 of Kirkdale, by the agency of Hysenas, and have evidently 

 been gnawed by these animals; otliers, particularly those of 

 Bears, are not broken, or gnawed, but very probably collected in 

 the same manner as the bones of Bears in the cave of Gailenreuth, 

 by the retreat of these animals into the recesses of caverns on the 

 approach of death; some may have been introduced by the action 

 of water. 



The human bones found in these caverns are in a state of less 

 decay than those of the extinct species of beasts; they are accom- 

 panied by rude flint knives and other instruments of flint and bone, 

 and are probably derived from uncivilized tribes that inhabited 

 the caves.. Some of the human bones may also be the remains of 



