186 A BONE CAVE AT WALTON, NEAR CLEVEDON. 
case of a very large humerus belonging to Dr. Male. Specimens in 
the Bristol Museum show these features equally well with Dr. Male's 
specimens (see plate). 
Wolf Canis lupus. 
By far the commonest of the larger bones next to those of the 
horse and bear were those of the wolf. Several skulls were met 
with, but in too crumbling a state to be extracted whole. Several 
nearly perfect mandibular rami were found showing remarkable 
variation in size. The largest in the Bristol Museum collection 
measures 16 centimetres from the posterior edge of the condyle to 
the posterior edge of the alveolus for the canine, while one belonging 
to Dr. Male, which was clearly that of an adult individual, from 
the fact that m. 2 was fully developed, measures only 12-15 centi- 
metres from the posterior edge of the condyle to the posterior edge 
of the canine. The Bristol Museum collection includes many limb- 
bones and vertebrae, and among them three perfect examples of 
the axis. 
Fox Canis vulpes. 
Bones of the fox were not very common, but are represented in 
Dr. Male’s and the Bristol Museum collections. 
? Arctic Fox Canis lagopus. 
Mr. E. T. Newton thinks that some vertebrae from Clevedon, in 
the collection of Dr. Male, may be attributable to the Arctic Fox 
on account of their small size. They are the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 
13th dorsal, and the last lumbar. He is also of opinion that half a 
metatarsal bone and a portion of a small lower jaw in the Bristol 
Museum collection may belong to the same species. 
Rodentia. 
While the bones of the larger mammals were found only in the 
cave-earth, the remains of rodents, while occurring in the cave earth, 
were more abundant in certain of the superficial deposits, their 
presence in both pointing to the conclusion that both deposits are 
of the same general age. 
Rabbit Lepus cuniculus. 
This species is represented by humeri in Dr. Male’s collection, but 
its remains are very rare, and in view of its burrowing habits much 
caution must be exercised in admitting it as a member of the fauna. 
Its absence would be quite in accord with the evidence pointing to 
the considerable antiquity of the Clevedon cave, and as pointed out 
by Sandford,^ the rabbit is one of the rarest members of the early 
cave fauna. 
A very large number (some hundreds) of jaws, teeth, and limb- 
bones of Voles have been found in the Clevedon deposits, and are 
now in the collections of Dr. Male, the Jerrnyn Street Museum, the 
British Museum, and the Bristol Museum. The greater part of these, 
Q. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxvi. (1870), p. 128. 
