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(Gironde), in all of which figures of animals regarded as 
characteristic of the Palaeolithic period occurred. 
Of the earlier discoveries I reproduce (after M. Riviere) illus- 
trations of two horse figures engraved on the walls of the cave 
of La Mouthe [Bull, de la Societe d’A nthropologie, October 19th). 
These designs were incised on a panel 128 metres from the 
entrance. The first (fig. 22) represents an animal with a small 
head, slender neck, and well-formed fore-quarters ; but the 
posterior part is heavy and altogether out of proportion. The 
other (fig. 23) has a stout neck, a long head, with a front 
directed almost vertically, and a heavy chin. Whatever may 
have been the defects of the artists, the originals of these two 
Fig. 23. — Head of horse, Grotte de la Mouthe. (Riviere.) 
drawings must have been very different animals, if not differ- 
ent species. Among the other animals figured in this cave 
were bison, bovidae, reindeer, goat and mammoth. 
On the 16th September 1901 MM. Capitan and Breuil sub- 
mitted a joint note to the Paris Academy of Sciences on “A 
New Cave with Wall Engravings of the Palaeolithic Epoch.” 
This was followed a week later (23rd September) by a second 
note, by the same explorers, on “A New Cave with Painted 
Wall Figures of the Palaeolithic Epoch.” A noteworthy dis- 
tinction in the art illustrations of these two caves is that one 
(Combarelles) has its walls adorned almost exclusively with 
engravings, cut more or less deeply, and the other (Font-de- 
Gaume) with paintings in ochre and black, or sometimes only 
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