On the Recent and Extinct Irish Mammals. 73 
that, osteologically, there was considerable differences in dimen- 
sions, although not in morphological characters, between specimens 
of European post-pliocene horses and certain drawings on rein- 
deer horns found in the Cave of Kesserloch in the Canton of 
Schaffhausen.* The drawing from this cave give an assinine 
aspect to the animal, at all events as far as the tail is concerned, 
with a more elegantly shaped head than is represented by actual 
specimens from the caves of Southern France. 
The celebrated cave of Oreston, in England, furnished remains 
of no less than 12 to 14 individuals of horset The latter agrees 
in size with the animal found in Shandon Cave. 
As regards other Irish localities, besides the above statements 
of Thompson, Mr. Jones, F.G.S., refers to the finding of teeth of 
horses near Loch Erne in a cave,§ and similar remains have been 
stated by other persons to have been found in similar situations 
along with exuviw of domesticated animals, as if it had likewise 
entered into the dietary of the early inhabitants of the 
eountry.|| At all events the horse was contemporaneous in 
Ireland with the Mammoth, Reindeer, Red deer, Grisley Bear, 
Wolf, Fox, and Mountain Hare. Remains of no less than 
six individuals were found in Shandon Cave. As to further finds 
I have just lately examined several crania said to have been 
found in gravel. One for which I am indebted to J. Townsend 
Trench, Esq., of Kenmare, was found near Monastereven, in 
County Kildare, another Mr. William Darragh pointed out to me 
in the Belfast Museum from gravel near Islandmagee, Co. Antrim, 
and also several equine molars. Although these specimens, as in 
the case of the skull in Trinity College, require confirmation in 
* Merk. Excavations at the Kesserloch, near Thaynger, Switzerland, Plate xii. 
+ Owen, Phil. Trans. vol. clix. p. 555. 
t Clift. Phil. Trans. 1823. 
§ Journ. Roy. Geol. Soc. Dublin. Knowles, Journ. Anthrop. Institute, 1877 and 1878. 
|| I regret to have occasion to notice these and other inaccuracies in Zoological 
and Paleontological statements made by Professor Hull in his late work on 
the Physical Geology of Ireland. But as he gives them on personal authority I feel 
bound in the interests of science to notice them. Although admitting the very cogent 
evidence of which I was an eye-witness of the presence of bones of horses with those of the 
Mammoth Bear, Reindeer, &c., in Shandon Cave, he thinks after all that it is questionable 
if the horse was indigenous to Ireland. If so, how came the other extinct mammals to 
sojourn in old Erin? As to man in those days we have yet to establish his presence in 
connexion with the lost mammals. 
