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portion of the os innominatum of a young Hare. The bones of the Roecleer and Hare 
are in exactly the same condition, as regards colour and amount of dendritic infiltration, 
as those of the young Bear, and there is no reason to doubt their contemporaneity ; but 
with respect to the bovine astragalus, as already stated, I am by no means so certain. 
A similar, though larger collection of ursine bones, but of those of a mature or perhaps 
rather of an aged animal, is recorded under No. CIIX. The number of bones belonging 
to the same skeleton is in this instance between twenty and thirty, and they are all 
pretty nearly in the same condition as those just described — that is to say, of a reddish- 
white colour, exceedingly porous and friable. They were found in the Reindeer 
Gallery 10 feet from the entrance, or at about the same distance as the foregoing, but 
at a greater depth, as I should presume ; though this is not very clear, as it is stated 
that they lay 30 inches deep in the first or uppermost bed. The collection includes : — 
the entire upper portion of the right femur and the upper part of the left minus the 
head, which was found detached and had apparently been gnawed or rolled, whilst all 
the other bones appear to be merely broken ; a portion of the pelvis, with part of the 
acetabulum ; several portions of the cranium and upper jaw, including the 1 m and 2 m, 
both worn down nearly to the bottom of the crowns ; a detached condyle of the lower 
jaw ; and a portion of the right ramus, containing the canine and 3 pm in situ , and 
exhibiting two small sockets for the 1 pm and 2 pm, one close to the canine and the 
other immediately in front of the 4 pm. There is also a part of the left ramus, con- 
taining the 1 m and 2 m, both worn down to the same extent as those of the upper 
jaw. The detached right upper and left lower canines and the detached head of the 
femur were also met with. From the size of the teeth and other bones, I should con- 
clude the species to have been Tlrsus arctos *. 
A fourth remarkable specimen, but in which the bones exhibit a much greater 
degree of dendritic infiltration, and are, to all appearance, of older date, is recorded 
under No. NXIV., comprising about thirty bones of one and the same skeleton of a 
mature animal of gigantic size compared with the others already mentioned. In order 
to afford a good notion of the way in which an entire skeleton was probably left in one 
spot, it will be useful to mention the bones contained in this “ find,” which occurred 
68 feet from the entrance of the Reindeer Gallery, and 33 inches deep in the third bed, 
or about a foot beneath and not more than 6 feet distant from the entire leg described 
above. The bones, however, do not belong to the same animal, but to one of much 
larger size. They include a nearly entire sacrum ; large portions of the right and left 
ossa innominata, including the acetabula ; a portion, about 9 inches long, of the right 
femur, wanting the head ; a portion of the right tibia ; portion of a scapula, ulna, 
and radius; nine vertebrae, some nearly entire; five or six large portions of ribs; an 
entire scapho-lunar bone and fragments of other bones ; and mixed with them is what 
appears to be a fragment of a metacarpal or metatarsal bone of Hyaena. 
On one of the ribs is a small notch, which Dr. Falconer observes might have been 
* One of the canine teeth of this specimen is figured in Plate XLVI. fig. 3. 
