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the cave of these two sets of auiuial remains, and it appears as if the cave 

 had been sealed up since it was occupied by the earlier inhabitants. 



I shall now give a complete list of the animals whose remains have been 

 discovered in the cave, marking those with an asterisk (*) which have been 

 ascertained by their position in the deposits as belonging definitely to the 

 earlier of the two periods. 





Mammals. 





Natterer's Bat. 





•Scandinavian Lemming. 



■Small Horse-shoe Bat. 



•Arctic Lemming. 



Domestic Cat. 





•Irish Hare. 



b Stoat. 





Rabbit. 



•Fox. 





•Mammoth. 



•Arctic Fox. 





Ox. 



►Wolf. 





Sheep. 



Dog. 





i ioat. 



ted Hyaena 





•Reindeer. 



•European Bear. 





•Irish Elk. 



Brown Bat 





1 torse. 



•Field Mouse, 



Birds. 



Domestic Pig. 



Missel ["brush. 





Scaup. (?) 



Blackbird. 





< house. 



a pie. 





t olilllioli Fowl. 



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Turkey. 



Skylark 





Quail. (?) 



<e. 





Landrail. 



Swan 





Moorhen. 



•Dudk. 





< rolden Plover. 



Widgeon. 1 l 



Amphibians. 



•Lessei Blaok^baoked Gull 



• onunon frog. 



Moi DUSKS. 





•Helix uemoralis, 







It will be noticed that among those earlier occupants of the cave, a certain 

 Dumber, such a.- the Fox, Irish Stoat, Irish Hare, and others, have survived to 

 the present day, and that the remains of some of these are also found among 

 the later set of tenants. If the cave therefore was formed before the Glacial 



