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2. Table showing the Distribution of Jaws and Teeth in the Cave. 



Carnivora. 



Hyaena spelaea .. 



Felis spelasa 



Felis 



Ursus spelreus .. 



Ursus arctos 



Ursus 



Canis lupus 



C. vulpes 



Proboscidea. 

 Elephas primigenius... 



Perissodactyla. 



Rhinoceros tichorhinus 

 E. hemitcechus, Falc 

 Equus 



Artiodactyla. 



Bos primigenius 



Bos 



Megaceros hibernicus 



Cervus tarandus* 



C. elaphus 



Cervus, sp 



Antrum. Passage B.I Passage C 



Jaws. Teeth 



26 229 

 5 



13 

 1 

 2 



3 

 2 



13 



1 



215 



14 

 1 



18 



Total. 



Jaws. TeethJ Jaws. Teeth, 



46 



67 

 2 



4 63 

 i 95 



1 

 7 "4 



10 

 24 



1 

 1 



39 612 64 236 



8 46 



Passage D. 



Jaws. Teeth 



41 39 

 2 



1 



13 



29 



28 



44 120 



Total. 



Jaws. Teeth 



121 342 



9 



1 



1 24 



1 



1 2 



4 3 



3 2 



30 



7 190 



1 



4 362 



12 



2 



16 



1 



23 



155 1014 



3. Introduction of the Organic Remains into the Cave. — I shall 

 now briefly consider the method by which the contents of the cave 

 were introduced ; and first the organic remains. 



The 800 or 1000 bones, including splinters, which we obtained, 

 form no index to the vast quantity that crumbled to pieces on expo- 

 sure to the air. Table No. 1 shows the distribution of the 429 

 which I have catalogued; and Table No. 2 shows the distribution 

 of the teeth and jaws in the cave. A glance at them will show 

 that, on the whole, the remains of any given animal, if abundant, 

 are not confined to one spot in the cave, but are pretty evenly dis- 

 tributed, and lie large with small, the more with the less dense, 

 not in the least degree sorted by water. There is no evidence of the 

 Bear succeeding to the Hyaena, or the Felis to the Bear, in the occu- 

 pation of the cave ; or that the latter retired hither to die, as in 

 some of the caves of Germany ; or that any of the Herbivores fell 

 into the open swallow-holes, and so left their remains, as in the 

 Hutton and Plymouth caves f . On the contrary, the numerous jaws 

 and teeth of Hyazna, the marks of those teeth upon every one of the 

 800 to 1000 bones, upon the 155 jaws, and even upon the great 



* C. Guettardi and C. Bucklandi are merely varieties of C. tarandus, under 

 which they are here classed, 

 t See Buckland, Eel. Diluv. 



