﻿2 PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIA. 



and Sundvig in 1 823, and Schmerling 1 those of the badger, marten, and polecat, 

 from the caves of Liege in 1833. Marcel de Serres, Dubrueil and Jeanjean 2 

 figured an otter's mandible from Lunel Viel in 1839, while Croizet and Jobert 3 

 recorded the same species from the Puy-de-D6me deposits in 1 828. The remains 

 of the smaller Mustelidse were naturally not as a rule recognised at so early a date 

 as those of the larger species, but Bucklancl, 4 as early as 1822, figured musteline 

 teeth from Kirkclale, which he attributed to the weasel, and Groldfuss 5 figured a 

 mandible from Grailenreuth, which he attributed to a Viverra. Schmerling, 

 however, pointed out that the latter bone was musteline. 



The records to the date of writing were summarised by H. v. Meyer 7 (1832), 

 F. HolP (1829—1831), de Blainville 9 (1844), and Giebel 10 (1847), while Owen, in 

 1842, 11 and subsequently in 1846, 12 gave a full account of the available information 

 regarding British occurrences. G-ervais 13 (1859) dealt fully with all French records. 



Five species of Mustelidse were recorded by Falconer 14 (1868) from the various 

 caves of Gower, and other records were given by Dawkins 15 (1869) in his paper on 

 the " Distribution of British Post-glacial Mammals." 



Very little has been written concerning Musteline remains from Ireland, though 

 Adams, 16 in 1881, recorded the marten and badger from Ballynamintra, co. Water- 

 ford, and Scharff the badger, otter and stoat from the caves of co. Clare, 17 and 

 the stoat from Kesh, 18 co. Sligo. 



The most important records of quite recent date in England are those of the 

 Ightham 19 fissure, in which, in addition to Mustela robusta, the polecat, weasel and 

 badger were met with. 



During comparatively recent times a number of important papers dealing with 

 the Pleistocene Mustelidse have been published on the Continent. E. Cornalia, in 

 his ' Mammiferes fossiles de Lombardie ' 20 (1858 — 1871), described remains of the 

 badger, marten, and polecat, some of the polecat skulls being very large. This 



1 ' Becherches Oss. foss. Cavernes de Liege,' i, pp. 158 — 166 ; n, pp. 5 — 15. 



2 ' Becherches Oss. humatiles Cavernes de Lunel Viel,' p. 70, pi. ii, figs. 14 and 15. 



3 ' Becherches Oss. foss. Dept. Puy-de-D6me,' p. 89. 

 * ' Phil. Trans.,' cxii, p. 182, pi. xx. 



5 ' Die Umgebungen von Muggendorf,' p. 282, pi. v, fig. 3. 



6 ' Eeclierches Oss. foss. Cavernes de Liege,' ii, p. 5. 7 ' Palaeologica,' p. 47. 



8 ' Handbucli der Petrefactenkunde,' p. 36. 9 ' Osteographie,' fasc. 4. 



10 ' Fauna der Vorwelt,' i, pp. 55 — 64. 



11 " Brit. Foss. Mammals," ' Bep. Brit. Assoc' (Manchester, 1842), pp. 70 — 72. 



12 ' Brit. Foss. Mamm. and Birds,' pp. 109—122. 



1:3 ' Zoologie et Paleontologie Francaises,' pp. 243—253. u ' Pal. Mem.,' p. 525. 



is ' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' xxv, p. 192. 1G ' Trans. Boy. Dublin Soc.,' (2) i, p. 205. 



17 ' Trans. Boy. Irish Acad.,' xxxiii, B, pt. i, pp. 40—43. 18 Ibid., xxxii, B, pt. 4, p. 205. 



19 ' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' 1, p. 200, and lv, p. 425. 20 ' Pal. Lomb.,' ed. Stoppani, ser. 2. 



