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superficial deposits of the latter country — a circumstance of some im- 

 portance when the recent and extinct animals are considered in re- 

 lation to physical geology and their probable route of migration to 

 Ireland after the Glacial Period. 



I shall now proceed to briefly indicate the data on which the fore- 

 going determinations are based. 



The '\Yild Hoese [Eqims calallus). 



Eemains of a small Horse, including many bones, but no teeth, 

 wore found in Shandon cave in connexion with the Mammoth, Eein- 

 deer, Eed Deer, Wolf, Cave Bear ( U. fossiUs, Goldf .), Fox and Hare.- 

 3Ir. Thompson also refers to teeth from gravel at considerable depths,^ 

 and many other cases are recorded of the finding of remains in similar 

 deposits. There are also many instances of equine and domesticated 

 animals' remains from caves and prehistoric dwellings, such as cran- 

 uoges.* 



The only evidence in connexion with the discovery of remains of 

 Tlip'po'potamm in Ireland rests on a single canine tooth said to have 

 been found near Carrickfergus in 1837. I have seen a well executed 

 drawing which is reported to be of this tooth, by the late M. Du J^oyer, 

 in the office of the Geological Survey of Ireland. On submitting a 

 copy to Dr. Moore, F.L. S., I^aturalist to the Survey, when the dis- 

 covery was made, he assured me that the above was a true representa- 

 tion of the tooth in question. The specimen, however, is lost, and 

 the circumstances connected with the discovery not being altogether 

 satisfactory, it appears to me prudent to allow the Hippopotamus a 

 place for the present among the doubtful Irish mammals.^ 



The Wild Hog (>S'?(s scrofa). 



Remains of the Hog are found in caverns, bogs, and crannoges, &c., 

 in connexion with domestic animals, and there are records of its 

 existence in a feral state in Ireland," but I can find no traces of its 

 contemporaneity with the Mammoth and other pleistocene mammals. 

 ]S"or is there satisfactory evidence of any feral Bos having been indi- 

 genous to Ireland.'' Historians mention wild cattle, but possibly 



2 Carte, Journal Royal Dublin Society, vol. ii., p. 11. Adams, Trans. Royal 

 Irish Academy, vol. xxvi., p. 215. 



^ Owen, British Fossil Mammals, p. 391. 



* Bryce, Report British Association, 1834, p. 658. Wilde, Froceedings of the 

 Royal Irish Academy, vol. i., p. 420. 



^ Dr. Moore makes a mistake in calling it ' ' an Elephant's tooth " in a letter quoted 

 liy Professor Hull, Journal of the Royal Geological Society, Ireland, vol. iv., p. 61. 

 The tooth is said to have been foxmd by a son of the well-known Mr. Doran, who 

 collected natural objects, and disposed of them to the officers of the Geological 

 Sui-vey of Ireland. — A. L. A. 



8 Wilde, Froceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. vii., p. 208. Gu-aldus 

 Cambrensis, Toph. Hihernica, who says the boars were aU deformed, and cowards. 



"> Scowler, Journal of the Geological Society, Fiihlin, vol. i., p. 228. 



