. Description of the Cavern of Bruniquel, and Its Organic Contents. Part II. Equine Remains . the full-sized specimens. But what is most to my present purpose is the evidence of the lengthof the beard-like hairs in the stallions, and the pointed ears in all. The short pointedears, associated with the bushy tail, are evidence of the affinity of the animal figuredin cuts 7 & 8, to Equus proper. The ears alone would not have been of value, sincethose of the Kiang have the shape and almost the proportion of the horses ears. Inthe wild Ass or Onager, the length of the ears and their less acute term
. Description of the Cavern of Bruniquel, and Its Organic Contents. Part II. Equine Remains . the full-sized specimens. But what is most to my present purpose is the evidence of the lengthof the beard-like hairs in the stallions, and the pointed ears in all. The short pointedears, associated with the bushy tail, are evidence of the affinity of the animal figuredin cuts 7 & 8, to Equus proper. The ears alone would not have been of value, sincethose of the Kiang have the shape and almost the proportion of the horses ears. Inthe wild Ass or Onager, the length of the ears and their less acute termination areconspicuous. The ears are large and obtuse in all the Zebrine groups. The profile ofthe fore part of the head (chaffron or chanfrein) of the mature horses is straight, asin the Greek sculptures *. It is a little convex in the outline of what I conclude to bethe head of a young animal (fig. 7, c), in which, from the jaws not bearing the full den-tition, they are shorter, and the eye (orbit) is accordingly more nearly midway betweenthe ear and the angle of the mouth. Fig. Outlines of heads of horses cut on a horses rib, from the Cavern of Bruniquel. The accuracy with which the characters of Cervus tarandus are rendered, in the outlineof the head and antlers of which a figure was communicated to the Eoyal Society in Part I.(June 9th, 1864: Cuts, figs. 5 & 6, p. 517), justifies the inferences deduced from the worksof an equally accurate primeval artist, to whom we are now indebted for, perhaps, the mostsatisfactory evidences of the affinities of the Eguus spelmus. The mouth (Cut, fig. 8, a!) isnot indicated by a mere line or simple incision; the outer ridges of the Equine molars musthave suggested the character of a multiplicity of teeth* Viewed by the hand magnifier,one sees, in fact, that the prehistoric Troglodyte has expressed his idea of the interlabialstructures, conventionally no doubt, by a row of minute notches above and below the linerepresenting the meetin
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