6 PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIA. 
recent years they have been recorded by Scharff’ from the prehistoric caves of 
Edenvale, co. Clare, and from those of Kesh, co. Sigo, which yielded remains 
referable in all probability to both the Pleistocene and Prehistoric periods. 
Bones of the wolf have also been found in Prehistoric deposits at Knockninny * 
and Knockmore,* co. Fermanagh, and bones somewhat doubtfully referable to the 
wolf at Ballynamintra,* co. Waterford ; but with these exceptions no wolf-bones 
have been recorded from Irish Prehistoric deposits, a somewhat remarkable fact in 
view of its great abundance in Ireland in historic times.’ 
Tur Doe (Canis familiaris). 
Owing to the frequent references to the bones of dogs in various papers dealing 
with the Irish Mammalian remains some allusion must be made to them here, 
though it is at least doubtful whether any animal that could be called a dog existed 
in the British Isles in Pleistocene times. 
Owen ° admits the dog to the number of his British fossil mammals, but does not 
describe any British specimens. The dog is not included by Dawkins’ in his table 
showing the distribution of British post-glacial mammals, and is not mentioned by 
Lydekker in his ‘Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum.’ 
Woodward and Sherborn® admit it among the British fossil vertebrates, but (?) Pre- 
historic deposits at Norwich and Walthamstow are the only occurrences in Great 
Britain to which they allude. Skulls attributed as a rule, owing to the length and 
slender character of the muzzle, to the large extinct Imish wolf-hound, have been 
repeatedly referred to by writers on Irish mammals. Wilde’ (1859) described 
examples from near Dunshaughlin, co. Meath ; Haughton '° (1876) referred to the 
occurrence of the dog in Knockninny cave near Lough Krne ; Adams” (1880) and 
Ball” (1885) referred to the skulls described by Wilde, and agreed with him in 
attributing them to dogs; and Adams!° (1881) described slender mandibles from 
1 «Trans. Roy. Irish Acad.,’ xxxii, B., pt. 4 (1903), p. 201, and xxxiii, B., pt. 1 (1906), p. 43. 
2 ‘Proc. Roy. Irish Acad.’ (2), ii (Sci.), 1876, p. 482. 
3 «Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc.’ (2), iii, 1885, p. 335. 
* Ibid. (2), i, 1881, p. 205. 
* See Adams, ‘ Proce. Roy. Iiish Acad.’ (2), i, 1878, p. 99; and Scouler, ‘Journ. Geol. Soc. 
Dublin,’ i, 1838, p. 225. 
6 « Brit. Foss. Mammals and Birds,’ p. 135. 
7 «Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,’ xxv, 1869, p. 192. 
$ «A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata,’ 1890, p. 324. 
2 “Proc, Roy. Irish Acad.,’ vii, 1859, Dp: 194. 
10 Ibid. (2), ii (Sci.), 1876, p. 482. 
11 «Sci. Proce. toy. Dublin Soc.,’ ii, 1880, p. 66. 
«Trans. Roy. Dublin Soe.’ (2), iii, 1885, p. 340. 
3 Tbid. (2), i, 1881, p 205. 
