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Felis catus '? — A lumbar vertebra from the Cave-earth corresponds in size 

 with that of the Wild Cat. 



Hi/cena spelcea. — The Cave-hyajna is very abundant in the Cave -earth. 



Cams lupus. — The Wolf, on the other hand, is comparatively rare. 



Canis domesticus. — The remains of the Dog are sparingly met with in the 

 Black Mould, and indicate the presence of more than one variety. 



Canis vidpes. — The Common Fox is found in the Black Mould, and sparingly 

 in the older subjacent deposit. 



Canis vulpes (var. spelceus). — Vulpine bones, on the other hand, from 

 tlie Stalagmite and Cave-earth indicate an animal larger and stouter than 

 the English Fox. These are not found in the Black Mould. 



Canis (size of C. isatis). — With the larger bones there are a few much 

 smaller than those of the Common Fox, that correspond most closely with 

 those of C. isatis. The vulpine skulls, however, in the Taunton Museiim, 

 from the Mendip Caves, rather indicate a species closely related to C. isatis 

 than a specific identity, since the true molars are somewhat broader. It is 

 well to mention that Mr. Sanford has identified a portion of a skull found 

 along with the remains of Hyaena, in a cave on the opposite side of Torbay, 

 as belonging to Canis isatis. 



Oulo luscus. — A single os innominatum of a nearly full-grown Glutton in- 

 dicates the presence of this rare mammal in the Cave-earth. Although it be- 

 longed to an animal not quite adult, it agrees almost exactly in size with that 

 of a fully grown male from Sweden. 



Meles taxus. — The remains of the Badger are abundant in the prehistoric 

 Black Mould, rare in the Cave-earth. In the latter case we doubt the truly 

 fossil condition of the bones. 



Ursiis spelceus. — The bones and teeth of the Cave-bear from the Cave- earth 

 indicate greater variation of size than those of any other wild animal with 

 which we are acquainted. 



Ursus priscus=ferox. — This species, which has been proved by Mr. Busk 

 to be undistinguishable from those of the North-American Grizzly Bear, 

 occi;rs abundantly in the Cave-earth, as it does also in the caves of the 

 Mendip Hills. The short stout bones of U. spelceus are represented by fiatter, 

 longer bones of U.ferox, that are for the most part distinct from the rounder 

 bones of U. arctos. We therefore have attributed the isolated flat long bones 

 to the second of these species. Bones of intermediate form, however, occur 

 which appear to connect the two forms. They are more constant in size than 

 those of the other two bears. 



Uvsus arctos. — Teeth and bones of the Brown Bear, stiU living in Europe, 

 occur, but not very commonly, in the Cave-earth. Some of those from the 

 Black Mould are evidently derived from the lower and older beds ; but others, 

 from their condition, apparently belong to animals that lived at the same 

 time as Bos longifrons and the Sheep or Goat of the Black Mould. 



Elephas primirjenius. — The Mammoth is but sparingly met with in the 

 Cave-earth. 



Rhinoceros ticJiorhinus. — The remains of the Woolly Ehinoceros are 

 abundant in the Cave-earth. 



Equus cahcdlics. — The Horse is the most abundant fossil in the Cave-earth, 

 Many of the teeth are more or less plicident, but we are unable to draw 

 any sharp line separating the Equus plicidens of Prof. Owen from the re- 

 cent species. They present almost endless variations in this respect, and 

 were apparcnly in a state of transition from the plicident to the common 

 type in the postglacial times. 



