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There are likewise a few bones of birds hitherto undetermined. There is no river-deposit mentioned in Prof. Dawkins's paper on British Postglacial mammals, which is credited with so large a number of species, except Fisherton, where the number is likewise fourteen. The assemblage, however, is not the same.

The specimens have been compared at the University Museum of Comparative Anatomy, and determined by Mr. Tawney, who has labelled and catalogued the whole of them. There is a fine skull of Hyæna, which would have been perfect had it not been broken off by the pickaxe just behind the canines; it belonged to an adult, but not aged, individual. A magnificent pair of horn-cores of the Bos primigenius were found, with the forehead attached; but unfortunately the horn-cores were so decayed and permeated with mud that only one of them could be saved. The most remarkable fact observed was the abundance of the bones and teeth of the Hippopotamus, also abundant at the "Green." Some very fine specimens of the tusks have been, with much labour, built up out of the very numerous fragments into which they fell when removed. Four teeth of Elephas antiquus had been previously obtained in another pit in the same field, at a short distance up the course of the old stream, and were presented to the Museum by Mr. F. W. Smith. Mr. Griffith also gave his specimens. I saw only one tooth of Elephant in our working; it was so decayed that it could not be brought home. I believe it belonged to E. primigenius. Had I known at the time that the other specimens belonged to E. antiquus I should have examined it more closely.

Only one worked flint was found. It is of an oval form, extremely small, being about an inch and a half long by an inch wide. It is