TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION D. 535 
B.—Evidence from Limb-bones. 
Metacarpals.—Prof. Ewart remarks in his paper ‘On the Origin of Clydes- 
dales, &c.’* : ‘ Many of the horses which inhabited central Europe in Pleistocene 
times had short broad cannon-bones. In the case of the 12- to 13-hands horses 
so abundant during the Solutréan Age to the north of Lyons the length of the 
metacarpal was as a rule about six times the width.’ 
A metacarpal from beneath the rubble-drift on the valley-flank (watermain 
trench) gives index=6; another from a similar position near the river gives 
index=5'83 ; a third found at a depth of 13 feet in the G.E.R. ballast-pits ai 
Ponder’s End gives index=6. Four others (Pleistocene) in the Sedgwick 
Museum give approximately the same index, agreeing (as a series) with five 
metacarpals in the Paris Museum (Ewart). 
Other limb-bones found under the rubble-drift in the watermain trench :— 
1. Two fragments of radius (wrist-end); greatest width 93 mm., as against 
85 mm. in the Stortford Skeleton. 
2. Two distal portions of humerus; greatest width 92 mm., as against 
8L mm. of the Skeleton. 
3. A fragment of humerus; greatest width 91 mm., as against 87 mm. of 
the Skeleton at the ‘ external tubercle’ (McFadyean). 
(Specimens and lantern-slides at the Sectional Meeting). 
The above facts, it is submitted, lead fairly to the conclusion that in later 
Pleistocene times horses of the Solutré type (as figured by the cavemen) 
roamed as far north as Southern Britain. Reference to-a paper communicated 
to Section H at this Meeting, on later finds of the remains of horse of the 
Stortford-Grimaldi type.” 
Remains of Bos, Cervus elaphus, Ovis, and Sus have also been found under 
similar conditions. 
8. The Migration of Birds over Birmingham and the Midland District. 
By F. Cosurn. 
1 Trans. Highland and Agri. Soc. of Scotland (1911). 
? See also B. A. Reports, Portsmouth Meeting (1911), p. 251. 
