376 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
In April last (1877) the Rev. J. M. Mello was able to inform the 
Geological Society of London that Derbyshire had shared with 
Devon the honour of having been a home of Machairodus latidens, 
he having found its canine tooth in Robin Hood Cave, in that county, 
and that there, as in Kent’s Hole, it was commingled with remains 
of the Cave Hyena dnd its contemporaries (Abs. Proc. Geol. Soc., 
No. 334, pp. 3, 4). 
The Ash-Hole, as we have already seen, afforded the first good 
evidence of a British Reindeer. 
In looking at the published reports on the two famous Torbay 
caverns it will be found that they have certain points of resemblance 
as well as some of dissimilarity :— 
Ist. The lowest known bed in each is composed of materials 
which, whilst they differ in the two cases, agree in being such as 
may have been furnished by the districts adjacent to the cavern- 
hills respectively, but not by the hills themselves, and must have 
been deposited prior to the existing local geographical conditions. 
In each this bed contained flint implements and relics of Bear, but 
in neither of them those of Hyzna. In short, the fourth bed of 
Windmill Hill Cavern, Brixham, and the breccia of Kent’s Hole, 
Torquay, are coeval, and belong to what I have called the U7sine 
period of the latter. 
2nd. The beds just mentioned were in each cavern sealed with a 
sheet of stalagmite, which was partially broken up, and considerable 
portions of the subjacent beds were dislodged before the introduction 
of the beds next deposited, 
3rd. The great bone bed, both at Brixham and Torquay, con- 
sisted of red clayey loam, with a large percentage of angular 
fragments of limestone; and contained flake implements of flint 
and chert, inosculating with remains of Mammoth, the Tichorhine 
Rhinoceros, and Hyzna. In fine, the cave-earth of Kent’s Hole 
and the third bed of Brixham Cavern correspond in their materials, 
in their osseous contents, and in their flint tools. They both belong 
to what I have named the Hyenine period of the Torquay Cave. 
But, as already stated, there are points in which the two caverns 
differ :— 
lst. Whilst Kent’s Hole was the home of man, as well as of the 
contemporary Hyzua during the absences of the human occupant, 
there is no reason to suppose that either man or any of the lower 
