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The Irish Naturalist. 
November, 
Reindeer. The Threatening Gallery was, in short, a den of 
the Hyaena, whose favourite prey seems to have been Mam- 
moth, especially in the very young state. We found a junk 
of bone or antler remarkably dug into by Hyaenas' (?) teeth. 
September 5. — The Threatening Gallery, before it has 
quite reached nineteen feet from the corner where it was 
diverted, ends in a ctil-de-sac, but before we reach this there 
are openings on the right into the Aged Carnivores Gallery, 
and on the left (east) into a continuation of the Third Gallery 
(Quadruple Set), which had become impassable. The part 
opening into the Threatening Gallery has a deep bed of sand, 
on the surface of which Ned Dalton found the head of a 
Mammoth's femur, a globe of bone, coated with mud. I call 
this Dalton's Gallery. Beyond this another opening leads into 
a further gallery, feet long, which is encumbered with 
fallen blocks and rubble ; its walls are insecure, and it ends 
in an earth-fall. So leaving it, we continued to work out the 
Threatening Gallery, in the sand of which we found chiefly 
Reindeer's bones, with some pieces of Hyaena and Mammoth. 
These were coated with mud rather than with sand. A few 
rolled sandstones were found. 
September 6. — Among the bones found in the extremity 
of the Threatening Gallery is an astragal of Hyaena, and the 
ends and middle part of a metacarpal of a very large Rein- 
deer, the intermediate piece being plainly crushed, probably 
by Hyaenas. 
We then worked the Dalton Gallery, and found in it quite 
a lot of Hyaena remains, teeth of great size, and pieces of jaws, 
scapula, ulna, astragalus, ribs, vertebrae ; also the spine of 
a Mammoth's vertebra, and ends of bones of Reindeer. The 
above were all found less than two feet deep, while tinder 
them was buried stalagmite, probably part of that overhead, 
which is here broken off, and ceases on the high level. 
September 7. — Worked in Dalton's Gallery down to three 
feet below surface, finding bones, the largest canine of Bear I 
ever found, over 4^ inches long ; two canines of Hyaena, one 
on the surface. Here I may note a remark of John Power, 
who did the digging, that in both these galleries the remains 
of Hyaena were usually near the surface, while bones of 
Bear were found among the deepest. In Dalton's Gallery 
