208 KEPoiiT— 1869. 



Bos primif/enius. — The Urus exists somewhat sparingly in the Cave-earth. 



Bison 2oriscus. — The Bison, ou the contrary, is much more common in the 

 same deposit. 



Bos Jowjlfrons. — Bones and teeth of the Celtic Shorthorn occur in the 

 Black Mould. The small bones in the Cave-earth belong to the preceding 

 species. 



Oervus megaceros. — The Irish Elk is not uncommon in the Cave-earth. 



Cervus elaplias (=Sfro7ir/i/loceros spelmiis, Owen=C destremit, Serres). — 

 We have come to the conclusion that the Red Deer was more variable in size 

 during the postglacial period than at the present day. Some teeth are not 

 larger than those of a small hind from the Hebrides, while others surpass in 

 size those of the largest Haddon or Horner Hart. Some even almost rival 

 those of the smaller specimens of the Irish Elk. The animal occurs both in 

 the superficial Black Mould and in the Cave-earth. 



Cervus tarandus. — The lleindeer is abundant in the Cave-earth. 



Cervus capreolus. — We have met with the Iloedeer only in the Black 

 Mould ; it was evidently a common article of food. 



Ovis aries, Cajpra hircus. — The Sheep and the Goat are abundant in the 

 Black Mould. 



Sus scrofa. — The Pig occurs in the Black Mould only ; it is small in size, 

 and was evidently an article of food. 



Lepus timidus. — The remains of the common Hare are abundant in the Black 

 Mould, but are rare in the Cave-earth and Stalagmite. In these deposits 

 they are for the most part replaced by larger and stouter bones, which may 

 perhaps be referred to Lepus dUuvianus of the French naturalists. These 

 stout bones are very rare in the Black Mould. 



Lepus cunicidus.- — Bones of the Rabbit are abundant in the Black Mould; 

 a single bone has occurred aj^pareutly from the Modern Stalagmite, but none 

 from the Cave-earth. 



Lafjomys spelcBus. — We have met in the Cave-earth with a lower jaw of 

 the Cave Pika. It is rather smaller than the type, and is closely related to 

 that of Lacjomys pusUlius. 



Arvicola amplnUus. — The Water-rat, or one of the closely allied varieties, 

 we have met with, but not abundantly, in the Cave-earth and Black Mould. 



Arvicola agrestis. — There are one or two specimens from the Cave-earth 

 of this species that show the same variation in the direction of A. ratticeps 

 which Mr. Sanford has remarked in jaws from the Men dip Caves. 



Arvicola glareola (^A. pratensis). — We have met with a single lower 

 jaw from the Cave-earth. 



Arvicola Gidielmi. — This new species of Yole, discovered lately by Mr. 

 Sanford in the caves of Mendip, is represented by a jaw from the Cave-earth. 

 It may be recognized by its viniting a size which nearly approaches that of 

 A. ampliihius to the dentition of A. suhterraneus. 



Castor fiber. — We have met with five specimens of the Beaver from the 

 Cave-earth. 



Plioccena communis. — A solitary scapula of this cetacean has been fur- 

 nished by the Black Mould. 



In this list we have merely noticed the species that have passed through 

 our hands, without reference to the previously published list of animals from 

 the Cave. 



