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occurrence, no attempt at their specific identification appears to 
have made until Mr. Davies, of the British Museum, kindly ex- 
amined those found by me at Pomphlett, and pronounced them to 
belong to the red deer — Cervus elaphus. It is, however, quite 
certain, from the manner in which previous cervine remains are 
described, that other species were represented — Cervus megaceros 
(the Irish elk), and Cervus tarandus (the reindeer) — which have 
occurred in Kent's Hole and at Brixham, almost certainly, and not 
improbably Cervus capreolus (the roedeer). A sacrum of horse 
found in 1878 (in the Mill Quarry) was identified by Mr. Davies 
as that of a small species of Equus, possibly Equus asinus, though 
Mr. Davies declines positively so to pronounce it. 
A human skull in the possession of Mr. Hodge is stated to have 
been found in a crevice of the rock at Turnchapel. There is how- 
ever nothing by which it can be definitely associated with the 
cavern fauna, and I have not included it in the table. Mr. Hodge 
considers that some of the teeth of the 1858-9 "find" belong to 
the giraffe and others to the camel, no relics of either of which have, 
however, been found in the country elsewhere. 
Mr. Hodge expresses a doubt of the genuineness of the sheep 
remains from Oreston. Mr. Bellamy had none with regard to those 
that fell into his hands. The probability is however that they 
were of more recent date. 
The remains of hare, water-rat, the rodent mentioned by Mr. 
Hodge, and the weasel, may be of later origin than the general 
cave fauna. I am inclined to the same belief with regard to the 
birds' bones found by myself at Pomphlett, and which are the first 
of the kind recorded from the Oreston district. 
Professor Owen mentions the bones of shrew-mice (Sorex vulgaris) 
as having been found "in the raised beaches near Plymouth." He 
also describes the hare of Kent's Hole and Kirkdale as having a 
rather shorter head than the common hare.* 
The Plymouth cave fauna is smaller than that of Kent's Cavern, 
the most important particulars of difference being the yield by the 
latter and not by the former of Machairodus latidens, badger, 
beaver, and glutton; and that Oreston has given us the leptorhine 
rhinoceros as well as the tichorhine, the lesser bison, and three 
species of Equus — fossilis, plicidens, and asinus — against one, 
caballus. Though the balance is still somewhat in favour of Kent's 
* "Brit. Fos. Main.," p. 28. Ibid., p. 211. 
