. Description of the Cavern of Bruniquel, and Its Organic Contents. Part II. Equine Remains . by a row of minute notches above and below the linerepresenting the meeting of the molars. An accurate drawing of this appearance, so * On the Elgin Marbles the domesticated horses are not larger than the mid animals which have left theirremains in the Bruniquel caye. BETJOTQUEL, AND ITS OEGANIC CONTENTS. 555 magnified, is given at al\ fig. 8. But the help which these draughtsmen of the old cave-dwelling people have undesignedly contributed to the modern man of science does notend here. The difference
. Description of the Cavern of Bruniquel, and Its Organic Contents. Part II. Equine Remains . by a row of minute notches above and below the linerepresenting the meeting of the molars. An accurate drawing of this appearance, so * On the Elgin Marbles the domesticated horses are not larger than the mid animals which have left theirremains in the Bruniquel caye. BETJOTQUEL, AND ITS OEGANIC CONTENTS. 555 magnified, is given at al\ fig. 8. But the help which these draughtsmen of the old cave-dwelling people have undesignedly contributed to the modern man of science does notend here. The difference between the cauda undique setosa * and the cauda extre-mitate setosa f is such as could not have escaped the sharp-eyed hunter, nor have failed,to be represented in the outlines by the artist of the tribe. Hitherto, so far as I learn,at Bruniquel, only the heads of the contemporary wild horses have been engraved onbone. But in the Cavern of La Madelaine, Dordogne, the antler of a Eeindeer (a shedone) was found covered with more coarsely graven outlines of entire Equines (fig. 9), Fig. Outline of horse, cut on a Reindeers antler, from a Cave in the Dordogne. showing the large or coarse head, characteristic of the wild animal, the short prick-ears,and a tail which unquestionably indicates the wholly clothed character of that part inthe true or restricted Equus of modern mammalogists. It is repeated in each of sevenoutlines cut on this antler, is short, or does not extend beyond the hock, and in none isthere the slightest indication of a terminal expansion or tuft suspended on a slenderstem as in Zebras and Asses. No satisfactory evidence of an aboriginal feral Equus caballus has yet been obtainedby the Naturalist. No specimen of such exists in any Museum. The doubts expressedby FoRSTEE and Pallas as to the alleged wild horses of the Ukraine, viz. that they mightbe descendants from strayed domestic horses, have not yet been cleared up. I believethe illustrations contained in
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