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ascertain from experience, whole bodies of individuals have been met with in 

 the spring of the year. 



A remarkable work upon canine madness, by Renner and Schenk, entitled 

 'die Hundswuth und Berichtiguug der Irrthiuner,' c., Jena, 1814, 36 s., 

 has appeared. 



HY./ENINA. The osteology of the Hyaena, in combination 

 with the establishment of the fossil species, has been worked 

 out by Blainville in the 14th fasciculus of his Osteographie. 



The Proteles, which had been associated by the Reporter in one family 

 along with the Hyaena, is brought by Blainville to a place among the Dogs, 

 but as appears to me with less exactitude. Regard being paid to the 

 anomalous condition of the teeth, it is best after all to form from it a distinct 

 family. The IL/cena brunea, B., is united with H. striata to constitute a 

 single species ; yet I had two years previously demonstrated, in the 

 'Abhaudl. der. Akadem. der. Wissensch. zu Miinchcn,' from the condition 

 of the cranium and dental structure, joined to the peculiar hairy covering 

 and colour of the fur, the claim upon the part of the first to hold good as a 

 distinct species. Blaiuville has only before him the single skull of that H. 

 brunea of which Cuvier and H. Geoffroy had already made mention, while all 

 declare that the lower carnivorous tooth exhibited an internal tubercle, as in 

 H. striata. But upon two skulls, whose comparison may be adduced, I have 

 ntirely failed to detect the same, upon one of them only a slight indication 

 of it being present : I have as little too been able to perceive such a 

 tubercle in a third specimen at Vienna, so that the cranium preserved in the 

 Paris collection is either not to be taken at all for that of H. bnmea, but of 

 striata, or the internal tubercle is apparent simply as an accidental ano- 

 maly upon the carnivorous tooth. Suudevall has recorded (Forhandlinger 

 vid. de skaud. Naturf. Stockh., 1843, p. 642; Isis, 1845, S. 436) the 

 occurrence of a cranium of Proteles with the full complement of molar 

 teeth, viz. five above as well as below. 



FELINA. Owen has, in the Brit. Fossil Mammalia, p. 163, 

 drawn attention to a good character whereby the crania of 

 the Tiger and Lion may be distinguished. 



It consists in the " prolongation backwards, in the lion, of the nasal pro- 

 cesses of the maxillary bones to the same transverse line which is attained 

 by the upper ends of the nasal bones ; whilst, in the Tiger, the nasal pro- 

 cesses of the maxillary bones never extend nearer to the transverse line 

 attained by the upper ends of the nasal bones than one third of an inch, and 

 sometimes fall short of it by two thirds of an inch, where they terminate by 

 an obtuse or truncated extremity, whilst in the Lion they are pointed. It is 



