10 PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIA. 



McEnery's specimen — a well-preserved mandible, now in the British Museum. 

 He also recorded the badger from Berry Head. 



H. von Meyer 1 (1859) described remains of the badger from the neighbourhood 

 of Weimar, giving a number of references to French and other records. 



Dawkins and Sanford 2 (1866) recorded it from Banwell and Wookey Hole, and 

 Falconer 3 (1868) from a number of the Gower caves. Other records are from 

 the caves or fissures of Durdham Down, 1 Uphill, 5 Ightham, 6 Cefn 7 (near St. Asaph), 

 and Hoe Grange. 8 



Pleistocene deposits other than caves have yielded bones of the badger at 

 Newbury, Berkshire, and Grovehurst, Kent, though the age of the latter deposit is 

 somewhat doubtful. 



Adams 9 records it from Ballynamintra, co Waterford, and Scharff 10 from the 

 Edenvale, Newhall and Barntick caves, co. Clare. 



The remains of the badger were remarkably abundant in the Langwith cave, 

 near Mansfield, and included the remarkably elongated skull figured in PL V. 



Li itra vulgaris, the Otter. 



Owen 11 referred to a mandible of this animal as having been found in the 

 Norwich Crag at Southwold, and to a humerus found in the same beds at 

 Aldborough, but Newton 12 was unable to see the specimens and verify the record. 

 He, however, recorded 13 it from the Forest Bed of East Runton. He further 

 believed that an otter occurred in Britain in Red Crag times, referring 11 to 

 de Blainville's species Lutra dubia, a specimen from the Red Crag of Foxhall, 

 near Woodbridge, which differed from Lutra vulgaris in having the carnassial 

 tooth longer from before backwards, and narrower than in the recent species, while 



1 ' Palaeontographica,' vii, 1859, pp. 41 — 45. 



2 " British Pleistocene Mammalia'' (' Pal. Soc.,' 1866), pt. 1, p. xxii. 



3 ' Pal. Mem.,' ii, p. 525. 



4 ' Proc. Bristol Nat. Soc.,' n.s., v, 1885—88, p. 44. 



5 Ibid., n.s., ix, 1898—1900, p. 159. 



c ' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc,,' lv, 1899, p. 428. 



7 ' Geol. Mag.' [3] iii, 1886, p. 571. 



8 ' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' lxi, 1905, p. 50. 



n ' Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc' [2] i, 1881, p. 208. 



10 ' Trans. Roy. Irish Acad.,' xxxiii, B., pt. 1, p. 42. 



11 'Brit. Foss. Mamra. and Birds,' p. 119. 



12 < Geol. Mag.' [3] iv, 1887, p. 145. 



13 ' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' xlvi, 1890, p. 444. 



11 "Vert. Pliocene Deposits " ('Mem. Geol. Surv.,') p. 12. 



