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REPORT OjN t THE EXPLORATION OE BRIXHAM CAVE. 
14. Cam's wipes. 
Seven instances occurred of the bones and teeth of the Common Fox, comprising 
nine specimens, five of which were met with in the Reindeer Gallery, and all but one 
on or near the surface, the exception being a carnassial tooth, which lay at a depth of 
about 2 feet. In one instance the upper and lower jaws were found intermixed with 
numerous apparently recent bones of the Hare, Rabbit, and Birds, and all the other 
specimens from this Gallery are evidentlv of comparatively recent date. Four speci- 
mens were found in the Flint-knife Gallery, one at a depth of 8 feet, another at 
5 feet 6 inches, and the most superficial at about 3 feet. All these bones, in contra- 
distinction to those from the Reindeer Gallery, are highly mineralized and obviously 
belong to a far more ancient period. In no other respect, however, is there the slightest 
difference between them. 
It is remarkable that no specimen belonging to the Badger occurs in the collection. 
A canine tooth, which I had referred to that species, turns out upon further inspection 
to be the lower milk-canine of TJrsus ( vide No. XXFI.). 
V. Rodentia. 
Innumerable bones of the Flare and Rabbit, of different sizes and of all ages, occurred 
in the Reindeer and Flint-knife Galleries, for the most part on or near the surface of 
the third bed or in the stalagmite floor. The only marked exceptions to this are in 
“ find” No. XCII., in which the tibia of a young Hare occurred at a depth of 3 feet in 
the Reindeer Gallery, but apparently in the same condition as the more superficial 
bones; and in No. LIV. numerous bones were met with “ amongst loose stones with 
little earthy matter,” at a depth of 4 feet in the Flint-knife Gallery. The other rodents 
whose remains are found in the collection, and which occurred apparently in the same 
superficial situations, are at least two species of Arvicola and, the most interesting of 
all, a fragment of the cranium (including fortunately the entire maxilla and all the 
teeth but one) of Lagomys spelceus. This specimen (of which a figure is given in 
Plate XLVI. figs. 12 & 13) was found, together with numerous bones of the Polecat, 
Hare, Rabbit, Water-rats, Sorex, &c., in the Reindeer Gallery, 110 feet from the North 
Entrance, lying on the surface of the third bed. It differs in no respect in appearance 
from the other bones with which it was associated, and, like most of them, is slightly 
dendritic. 
