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1869.] Saint Audries.— Mus. Taunton ; Sir Alexander Hood.

SiTTiNGBOURNE. — Mus. Geol. Survey ; Dr. Grayling.

Stour Valley. — Brit. Mus.

Stroud. — Coll. Mr. Lucy (Gloucester).

Tewkesbury. — On the authority of Prof. Owen (Brit. Foss. Mamm.).

Thame. — Coll. Mr. T. Coddrington ; Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xx. p. 374.

Thames, Lower. — Brit. Mus. ; Mus. Coll. Surg.

Thetford. — Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xxiii. p. 45.

TiSBURY. — Brit. Mus. Mus. Geological Survey.

Tooting. —Mus. Geological Survey.

Walton. — Brit. Mus. ; Mus. Cambridge, Colchester, Geological Survey, Oxford, Geological Soc, and Dr. Bree.

Wealden area. — Mus. Folkestone.

Weston-super-Mare. — Geological Mag. vol. iii. p. 115.

Whitstable. — Brit. Mus.

Wilton jail. — Mus. Taunton.

WiNDSOR. — Mus. Geological Survey ; Captain Luard, R.E.

Woodstock Road Station. — Coll. Mr. James Parker.

Worcester Museum. — Worcester.

Wyre. — Strickland Coll., Apperley Court.

Yarmouth. — Brit. Mus.; Mr. Nash (Yarmouth).

§ 4. Notes on the Species. — Order Carnivora, family Ursidae, species Ursus ferox. The existence of the Grizzly Bear in Europe was proved by Prof. Busk in 1867*, as well as its probable identity with U. priscus of Dr. Schmerling. It is probably also identical with, the Ursus Leiodensis of the latter author, and with the U. Bourguignati from the Maritime Alps, described by M. Lartet in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles†.

Order Carnivora, family Mustelidae, species Gulo luscus. The Wolverine, or Glutton, the great pest of the fur-hunters of Siberia and North America, has been determined as a British fossil by Mr. W. A. Sanford. Two of the characteristic canines of that animal have been found in the Mendip caves, in Banwell and Bleadon, and are preserved in the Taunton museum.

Order Carnivora, family Felidae, species Felis pardus. The existence of the Panther in Britain was proved in 1865, by a canine from Banwell Cave, in the collection of the Earl of Enniskillen, and by two canines, a molar, femur, ulna, and two metatarsals from the Bleadon Cave‡. It is most probably identical with the F. antiqua of Cuvier, from the osseous breccia of Cette §.

Order Carnivora, family Felidae, species Felis leo, var. speloea. The specific identity of Felis speloea with the living F. leo of Africa and Asia has been proved in the monograph on the animal published by the Palaeontographical Society||.

Order Carnivora, family Felidae, species Felis lynx. We are indebted to Dr. Ransom for the discovery of a lower jaw and skull


 * Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol, xxiii. p. 342.

† 5e Serie, tome viii. p, 157, pl. ix.

‡ See Cat. Taunton Mus. Nos. 616-623.

§ This was also the opinion of the late Dr. Falconer, expressed verbally to me.


 * British Pleistocene Mammalia, Parts I., II., III.