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recesses of the cavern to be devoured by Iiysenas or Tigers. They were mostly deep 
in the cave-earth in ail parts of the cave. 
The Horse was less abundant. Mr. Busk mentions several instances in which the 
limbs seem to have been brought into the cave while held together by their soft parts, 
and the bones afterwards dispersed, as in the case of an astragalus and tibia found 50 
feet apart, two phalanges 36 feet apart, also two metacarpal bones belonging to the 
same limb 23 feet apart. Three specimens are from the fourth and the rest from the 
third bed. 
The bones of the Ox were in about equal numbers with those of the Horse. One 
specimen was found in No. 4 bed and the others at variable depths in the cave-earth. 
We see no objection in connecting some of the specimens found in the Flint-knife 
Gallery with others found in the West Chamber, notwithstanding the difference of 
mineral characters. 
Next to the Bear the remains of the Beindeer were most plentiful ; and they occurred 
at all depths, from the surface of the stalagmite down to the top of the shingle bed, in 
the three chief passages. Mr. Busk’s measurements show the animal to have been 
intermediate in size between the American and the Norwegian variety. 
Few remains of the Bed Deer were found, and of these six were basal portions of shed 
horns. They were mostly gnawed, and, except one found in the stalagmite, they were 
all in the cave-earth. 
The Boebuck is equally scarce with the Bed Deer, and several of the few dispersed 
specimens belonged apparently to the same animal. They were all in bed No. 3. 
Of the Lion or Tiger most of the very few bones were deep in the cave-earth, chiefly 
in the Flint-knife Gallery, and several belonged to the same animal. The teeth were 
in large proportion. 
In the case of the Hysena the preponderance of teeth is again noticeable, and, like with 
the remains of the Lion, a large proportion of the specimens were deep in the cave-earth, 
and became rare near the surface. The West Chamber, Flint-knife and Beindeer 
Galleries were nearly equally resorted to by it : there is an entire absence of the bones 
of very young animals. 
The number of the bones of the Bear exceeds that of all the other animals put together. 
A great part of them occurred at some depth in the cave-earth, but many were also 
found on its surface and in the stalagmite. Comparatively few specimens were gnawed ; 
and generally the bones of the young animals, of which there were a large number, were 
neither gnawed nor rolled. They were mostly met with in the Beindeer and Flint-knife 
Galleries. 
The remains of the Fox were scarce ; some may be of recent origin, but a sufficient 
number show evidence of antiquity. One specimen was 8 feet deep in the cave- 
earth. 
The same remark applies to the Hare, the remains of which, scattered in the two 
main galleries, were, however, much more numerous and superficial. 
