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54 feet from the entrance of the Flint-knife Gallery. In that compartment of the 
cavern five indubitable specimens belonging to the Cave-Lion were met at the depth of 
about 5 feet, and all about 50 feet from the entrance. They consist of : — 
1. A much-worn upper canine, exactly resembling the one figured in ‘ Reliquiae 
Diluvianee,’ plate xxii. figs. 6, 7. 
2. A portion of the right maxilla, with the third and fourth premolars in situ. 
3. A similar portion of the left maxilla with the 2 pm and another portion of the 
same jaw with the third incisor in situ, all looking old and weathered; and the three 
portions appear without doubt to belong to one and the same individual. 
4. A fifth proximal phalanx of the manus. 
5. A fourth phalanx, probably belonging to the same individual. The former of these 
bones is very nearly entire, the latter is fractured at the distal end. Both, as I am in- 
formed by Mr. Boyd Dawkins, to whom I am indebted for the certain determination of 
these specimens, are remarkable for their comparative slenderness as compared with 
those which had previously come under his inspection, and also for the great depth of 
the dorsal pit immediately above the head of the bone. This is a character which I 
find varies a good deal also in the recent species, being sometimes almost wanting, and 
at others well marked ; but I have seen no case in which it is so pronounced as in the 
Brixham fossils. Both of the bones are figured in Plate XLY. figs. 7 and 8. 
10. Hycena. 
Next below those of C. tarandus in frequency are the remains belonging to Hycena. 
They amount to about sixty in number, and were found distributed nearly equally in 
three divisions of the cavern, viz. eighteen in the Reindeer Gallery, seventeen in the 
Flint-knife Gallery, and twenty-one in the West Chamber. 
In the Reindeer Gallery the average depth at which the bones of Ilycena were found 
seems to have been about 37 inches in the third bed, and the greatest depth about 9 feet. 
In the Flint-knife Gallery the average depth was about 4 feet, and the greatest depth 
5 feet 6 inches. 
In the West Chamber the average depth was between 10 and 11 feet, but fully half of 
the bones there met with lay at a depth of 13 feet. No specimen referrible to Hycena 
seems -to have occurred above the stalagmite floor, nor more than four or five on or very 
near the surface of the third bed. These are : — three specimens met with in the Rein- 
deer Gallery at a depth of from 9 to 12 inches, and at distances of 29, 39, and 50 feet 
from the entrance ; whilst in the Flint-knife Gallery two specimens occurred at a 
distance of 7 feet from the entrance, one on the surface of the third bed in immediate 
contact with the stalagmite floor, and the other at a depth of 16 inches. The surface 
specimen, though presenting all the characters of the greatest antiquity, was associated, 
as it would seem, with more than 100 bones of the Rabbit, Flare, Birds, &c., all of which 
were in the usual condition of the superficial bones elsewhere. But the anomaly may 
probably be explained by the circumstance that in the same situation broken slabs of 
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