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W. B. DAWKIiSrS ON" THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE 



Mid-Pleistocene Mammalia. 



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Boe Gervus capreohis, L 



Staff C. elaphus, L 



Hipppotamus Hippopotamus major 



Wild boar Sics scrofa,!, 



Fox Canis vulpes, L 



Wolf G.lupus,-L 



Brown bear Ursus arctos, L 



Beaver Castor fiber, L 



W^ater-rat Arvicola amphihius, L. . 



Survivals from Early Pleistocene — Extinct species =4. 

 Straight-tasked elephant ....Elephas antiquum, Falc 



Mammoth E. primigenius, Blmii. , 



Big-nosed rhinoceros Bhinoceros megarhinus, ChristoL. 



Irish elk Megaceros hibernicus, w 



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Musk-sheep Ovibos moschatus, Desm 



Bison Bison priscus 



Grrisly heart ITrsus ferox, luevf & Clark 



Otter Ltttra vidgar is, Yirxl 



Spotted hygena Rycsna crocuta, Zimm 



Wild cat Felis catus, L 



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21. ^A(2 Late-Pleistocene Mammalia of Britain. 



It is unnecessary to discuss at any length the characters of the 

 Late-Pleistocene Mammalia of the caves and river- deposits, as they 

 have already been brought before the Society in previous com- 

 munications 4:. The arctic Mammalia were present in Britain ; and 

 vast herds of reindeer, such as those found in the river-deposits at 

 W^indsor, and more recently at Eugby, and in the limestone fissure 

 at Windy Knoll, near Castleton, in Derbyshire, swung to and fro, 

 according to the season, over Pleistocene Europe, as far south 

 as the Alps and the Pyrenees. The living species preponderated 



t This may ultimately be proved to be a survival from the Early Pleistocene. 

 \ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxviii. p, 410, xxxiii. pp. 607 & 724, xxxv. p. 724. 



