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part of the left tibia, evidently corresponding with the above femur, but which was 
found in the Flint-knife Gallery 22 feet from the entrance, lying on the surface of the 
third bed. 3. Three other portions of apparently the same skeleton, or at any rate of 
an animal of the same age, are a portion of a cervical vertebra, which lay on the stalag- 
mite floor in the Reindeer Gallery, 81 feet from the entrance, a fragment of a calcaneum, 
and the greater part of a metatarsal, which were deposited one on the surface and the 
other 3 inches deep in the third bed in the Flint-knife Gallery, about 10 feet from the 
entrance. 
With respect to the older or, at any rate, deeper remains, few remarks are required. 
The form to which they belonged seems to have been of medium size ; and most of the 
bones, but not all, exhibit undoubted marks of having been gnawed, most probably by 
the Hyeena. But of these more deeply deposited remains two exhibit the light colour 
and porous condition by which the superficial bones are distinguished : both are upper 
portions of the left radius, one of which occurred at a depth of 54 inches and 21 feet from 
the entrance of the Reindeer Gallery, associated with the astragalus and a tooth of 
Rhinoceros and the calcaneum of a Bear, all three of which presented the characters of 
great antiquity ; the other was found by itself in the “ Flint-knife Gallery,” 45 inches deep 
in the third bed, and 53 feet from the entrance, but “ amongst loose angular stones.” 
I have placed in the subjoined Table the measurements of some of the parts of dif- 
ferent bones of the Brixham Cave Reindeer, contrasted with those of individuals of the 
existing Norwegian and American forms and some others, in order to afford an idea of 
the comparative dimensions of the species. 
Comparative Dimensions of Bones &c. of Reindeer. (0"‘01.) 
Part. 
Brixham Cave. 
Norwegian 
Reindeer. 
American 
Reindeer. 
Les Eyzies. 
Glenoid fossa 
135 x 120 
120 x 110 
155 x 145 
140 x 130 
Distal end of humerus 
190x180 
185 x 170 
195 x 215 
D ” 
180 x 160 
Least circumference of humerus 
350 
297 
335 
i H 
235 
Proximal end of radius 
105x180 
100 x 160 
105 x 200 
D D 
95 x 162 
D 11 
95 x 160 
Length of radius 
920 
870 
1075 
Least circumference 
290 
235 
330 
Distal end of metacarpal . 
90 x 170 
80 x 150 
Acetabulum 
120 
Distal end of tibia 
115 x 150 
115 x 145 
135 x 180 
11 11 
120x150 
11 11 
120 x 155 
11 11 
120 x 155 
11 19 
120 x 150 
Distal end of metatarsal 
90 x 170 
85 x 150 
Calcaneum 
390x115 
340 
11 
350 x 110 
Astragalus 
180x110 
170 x 105 
11 
180x110 
Scapho-cuboid 
120 x 130 
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120 x 135 
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