556 
EEPOET ON THE EXPLOEATION OE BEIXHAM CAVE. 
France, the Grisly Bear, an inhabitant of the Rocky Mountains and other parts of 
North-western America, should also be added to the list of the old cave Mammalia of 
Europe. 
This important determination has a bearing beyond the local case of the Brixham Cave, 
as Mrf Busk considers there is reason to believe that many of the Bear-remains found in 
caves in this country and on the Continent and referred to Ursus prisons belong in fact to 
Ursus for ox *. The presence of another small N orth -American animal has been ascer- 
tained, viz. the Lemming ; and though its remains were found very near the surface, it 
has been met with elsewhere in association with Pleistocene Mammalia. 
Excluding the more doubtful smaller animals f , the list, as determined by Dr. Falconer 
and by Mr. Busk, of animal remains found in the Brixham Cave consists of: — 
1. 
Elephas primi genius . 
Number of 
determined 
specimens. 
. Mammoth 11 
9 
~j • 
Rhinoceros ticliorhinus . 
Tichorhine Rhinoceros 
67 
o 
o. 
Equus cobcdlus 
. Horse 
30 
4. 
Eos ptf mi genius 1 
Great fossil Ox ........ 
}28 
5. 
■ longifrons \ . . . 
Small fossil Ox 
6. 
Cerms elaphus . . . 
. Great Red Deer 
12 
7. 
tcirandus 
. Reindeer 
72 
8. 
Capreolus capr eolus . 
. Roebuck 
13 
0. 
Fells spelcm .... 
. Cave-Lion or Tiger 
9 
10. 
Hyaena spelcm . . . 
Cave-lTycena 
57 
11. 
Ursus speloens \ . . . 
. Cave-Bear ' 
12. 
■ arctos .... 
. Brown Bear 
.354 
13. 
• prisons s .ferox 
Grisly Bear 
14. 
Canis vulpes .... 
. Fox 
15 
15. 
Lepus cuniculus . . . 
. Hare 
? 
10. 
Lagomys speloeus . 
Lemming 
1 
The order of distribution of the remains of these animals in the cave is fully described 
in Mr. Busk’s Report. From this it results that : — 
Few bones, and no teeth or fragments of tusk, of the Elephant were found, and those 
few belong to the earliest occupancy of the cave: both the specimens occurring in the 
shingle bed were gnawed and probably brought in by some Carnivore. 
The remains of the Rhinoceros were far more numerous, and increased in numbers in 
proportion to the distance from the entrance, and were probably taken into the deeper 
* All tlie ursine remains from the Gower caves, that have come under Mr. Busk’s observation, appear to belong 
to the so-called Ursus priscus (s. ferox fossilis, Busk). 
t It is a question whether the Arvicola, Sorex, and some birds should not be included in the later part of 
the Cave period. See particulars of “finds” Xos. XIY., XLI., LIY., & XCIX. 
