On the Recent and Extinct lrish Mammals. 63 
extinct in the island before man commenced to make records of 
the fere of the country ; for it is a remarkable circumstance that 
in all the remains of Irish extinct mammals, none present the 
fragmentary characters presented by the cavern deposits of the 
sister island, thus showing, on the one hand, that they had not 
been destroyed by man, nor by the bone-crunching hyena, but 
that they met their deaths, for the most part, through natural 
causes and accidents. 
I give on next page a Table of the dimensions of the 
crania just referred to. 
[TABLE, 
