CANIS LUPUS. 123 
CARNIVORA. CANID AL, 
Fossil Wolf, + nat. size, Kent’s Hole. 
CANIS LUPUS. Wolf. 
Loup fossile, Cuvier, Annales des Muséum, tom. x. p. 432; Ossem. 
Foss. tom, iv. p. 458. 
Wolf, CuFt, Philos. Trans. 1823, p. 90. Pl. vill. and xii. 
os Buckxanp, Relig. Diluy. pp. 18, 75, 89. 
Canis speleus, Go.pruss, Nova Acta, Nat. Curios, t. xi. pt. ii. p. 451. 
Loup fossile, ScHMERLING, Ossem. Foss. de Liege, t. ii, PL ii. iii. and iv. 
Canis Lupus, Owen, Report of Brit. Association, 1842. 
Tue fossilized state of bones and teeth of the Wolf dis- 
covered in caves, and their association with remains of ex- 
tict species of Mammalia found in the same state and 
position, carry back the date of the existence of this Car- 
nivore in great Britain to the period anterior to the depo- 
sition and dispersion of the superficial drift. At a sub- 
sequent period, when evidence of the state of the British 
Fauna can be derived from historical records, we find the 
Wolf amongst the earliest animals which are thus noticed. 
In Ireland, a species continued to exist until the year 
