MAMMALIA. 5 



Temperate Mammalia. Wall-case 



Wild Cat (Felis catus). „. *■ _ 



Lynx (Felis lynx). Pier-case 2. 



Otter (Lutra vulgaris). 

 Badger (Meles taxus). 

 Stoat (Mustela erminea). 

 "Weasel (Mustela vulgaris). 

 Marten (Mustela martes). 

 Fox (Canis vulpes). 

 Wolf (Canis lupus). 

 Brown Bear (Ursus arctos). 

 Grisly Bear (Ursus horribiUs), 

 Horse (Equus caballus). 

 Bison (Bison bonasus). 

 Boebuek (Capreolus caprea). 

 Stag (Cervus elaphus). 

 Wild Boar (Sus scrofa). 

 Hare (Lepus europseus). 

 Babbit (Lepus cunimdus). 

 Beaver (Castor fiber). 



Southern Mammalia. 



Lion (Felis leo). 

 Leopard (Felis pardus). 

 Kaffir Cat (Felis caffra). 

 Spotted Hyaena (Hyssna croouta). 

 Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus ampJiibius). 



Extinct Mammalia. 



Sabre-toothed Tiger (Machasrodus latidens). 

 Short-nosed Cat (Felis brevirostris) . 

 Cave-bear (Ursus spelceus). 

 Woolly Bhinooeros {Rhinoceros antiquitatis). 

 Narrow-nosed Bhinooeros (B. leptorhinus). 

 Large-nosed Bhinooeros (i?. megarhinus). 

 Irish Deer (Cervus giganteus). 

 Urus (Bos primigenius). 

 Mammoth (Elephas primigenius). 

 Straight-tusked Elephant (Elephas antiquus). 



The remains of some of these animals have an interesting 

 distribution. The cave-bear occurs most abundantly in the 

 oldest layer of the floor, as in Kent's Cavern and the Cres- 

 well Caves. It is the only animal found in some of the 

 caverns of Franconia and the Harz Mountains, Germany, 

 where most of the individuals are aged and seem to have 

 retreated to these quiet spots to die. The British lion 

 appears to have been most numerous in the neighbourhood 

 of the Mendip Hills. The hippopotamus ranged as far north 

 as Kirkdale Cave in the Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire. The 



