THE OSSIFEROUS CAVERNS OF DEVONSHIRE. 375 
of the choicest specimens to the British Museum, and submitted the 
remainder to Mr. Ayshford Sanford, F.G.S., from whom I learn that 
the principal portion of them are relics of the Cave Hyzna, from 
the unborn whelp to very aged animals. With them, however, 
were remains of Bear, Reindeer, Ox, Hare, Arvicola ratticeps, 
A. agrestis, Wolf, Fox, and part of a single maxillary with teeth not 
distinguishable from those of Canis isatis. To this list I may add 
Rhinoceros, of which Mr. Wolston showed me at least one bone. 
From the foregoing undesirably, but unavoidably, brief descrip- 
tions, it will be seen that the Devonshire caverns, to which attention 
has been now directed, belong to two classes—those of Oreston, 
the Ash-Hole, and Bench being Fissure Caves; whilst those of 
Yealm Bridge, Windmill Hill at Brixham, Kent’s Hole, and Ansty’s 
Cove are Tunnel Caves. 
Windmill Hill and Kent’s Hole Caverns have alone been satis- 
factorily explored; and besides them none have yielded evidence of 
the contemporaneity of man with the extinct cave mammals. 
Oreston is distinguished as the only known British cavern which 
has yielded remains of Rhinoceros leptorhinus (Quart. Journ. Geol. 
Soc. xxxvi. p. 456). 
Yealm Bridge Cavern, if we may accept Mr. Bellamy’s identi- 
fication in 1835, was the first in this country in which relics of 
Glutton were found (South Devon Monthly Museum, vi. pp. 218— 
223; see also Nat. Hist. S. Devon., 1839, p. 19). The same species 
was found in the caves of Somerset and Glamorgan in 1865 (Pleist. 
Mam., Pal. Soc., pp. xxi., xxii.), in Kent’s Hole in 1869 (Rep. Brit. 
Assoc. 1869, p. 207), and near Plas Heaton, in North Wales, in 
1870 (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xxvii. p. 407). 
Kent’s Hole is the only known British cave which has afforded 
remains of Beaver (Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1869, p. 208), and up to the 
present year the only one in which the remains of Machairodus 
latidens had been met with. Indeed Mr. MacEnery’s statement, 
that he found in 1826 five canines and one incisor of this 
species in the famous Torquay cavern was held by many paleon- 
tologists to be so very remarkable as, at least, to approach the 
incredible, until the Committee now engaged in the exploration 
exhumed, in 1872, an incisor of the same species, and thereby 
confirmed the announcement made by their distinguished prede- 
cessor nearly half a century before (Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1872, p. 46). 
