238 CAVE-BEAR. CAVE-LION. 



Europe, and in the Southern parts of Russia. It is doubtful 

 whether it has yet been discovered north of the Baltic or 

 south of the Alps, but it appears to have crossed the Alps, 

 and is recorded by Don Casciano de Prado as occurring in a 

 cave near Segovia. No trace of it has, however, yet been 

 found by Mr. Busk and Dr. Falconer, among the numerous 

 remains from Gibraltar. The oldest specimen yet recorded 

 appears to be that mentioned by Owen, as having been found 

 in the pliocene deposits of Boston in Norfolk, associated with 

 the remains of Trogontherium, Palceospalax, etc.* It is also 

 included in the lists of species found near Abbeville, but 

 M. Lartet thinks there must be some mistake about this, 

 as he has been unable to find a single bone of this species 

 in any of the collections from the Somme valley ; and of all 

 the quaternary mammalia, he regards the cave-bear as having 

 been the one which was the first to perish. Subsequent in- 

 vestigations have proved, however, that it does occur, though 

 sparingly, in the river- drift gravels. 



The cave-hyaona, and cave-tiger, are found associated with 

 the TTrsus spelceus in the caverns. They have also been dis- 

 covered by M. Delesse, with the aurochs and the woolly- 

 haired rhinoceros, in a bed which M. Delesse refers to the 

 lower layers of the Diluvium. They do not appear to have 

 been as yet met with in the upper layers of the river-drift 

 gravels, or in the peat bogs. 



On the other hand, M. Lartet hints that the lions of 

 Thessaly, which, according to Herodotus, attacked the beasts 

 of burden attached to the army of Xerxes, f may possibly 

 have belonged to this species. Nay, more, he quotes the 

 opinion of Dr. Falconer, that the large Felis of Northern 

 China and the Altai mountains has been too hastily referred 



* History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds, p. 106. 

 f See also Mr. A. Newton's interesting Memoir on the Zoology of Ancient 

 Europe, Cam. Phil. Soc., Mar. 1862. 



