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strictly carnivorous and one insectivorous mammal. This seeming 
disproportion may, however, partly be accounted for ; because it is 
a well-known fact, that the remains of carnivora are much more 
abundant in caves, than in deposits like the crag or forest-bed. 
Co-existing with these extinct species are four forms which have 
survived to the present day, viz. : — 
Cervus elaphus Cervus tarandus 
Cervus capreolus Ursus arctos 
I have not described these in the above-mentioned list, as they 
are not truly extinct mammalia, although they were associated with 
them. 
The absence in the forest-bed of a genus which we might reason- 
ably have expected to find, is rather remarkable. So far as 1 have 
had the means of ascertaining, no remains of Suidae have as yet 
been found in this deposit. The absence of Sus is very remarkable, 
as it is represented by a form, Sus ant! quus, in an earlier deposit, 
viz., the Suffolk crag. The remains of sheep and goat also rest 
upon very slender evidence as having been found in the same 
deposit, viz., the finding of the tarsal ami metatarsal bones of these 
animals at Hasbro’, in a portion of the forest-bed, which most 
undoubtedly has been subjected to great disturbance. These bones 
may therefore have become intermixed cxtraneously with the true 
forest-bed remains. 
The works to which I am chiefly indebted in compiling this 
paper are — Professor Owen's ‘ British Fossil Mammalia ; ’ ‘ The 
Elements of Palaeontology,’ by the same author ; Dr. Falconer’s 
‘ Palaeontographical Memoirs;’ Cuvier’s ‘Ossemens Fossiles,’ quarto 
edition ; Croizet and Jobert’s ‘ Ossemens Fossiles du Departe- 
ment du Puy do Dome;’ and various papers by Professor Boyd 
Dawkins in the Quarterly Journals of the Geological Society. 
I have included in this list species which have been dredged up 
at sea from the various post-glacial deposits, although not strictly 
within the limits of this county. At the time when these extinct 
mammalia existed, the distribution of land was altogether different 
from what it is now : dry land then extended as far as the 
opposite coast of Holland ; in fact it has been clearly proved by the 
various soundings taken and other means that England was 
during the later Pliocene and earlier Pleistocene periods part and 
parcel of the continent of Europe. 
